Nonviolence and Holistically Environmental Ethics: Gropings While Reading Samayadivākaravāman̲amun̲i on NīlakēciLIT Verlag Münster, 2007 - 198 Seiten Put in terms of their essentials, these gropings begin with the difficult validity puzzle ethical epistemology amounts to, continue with the centrality of nonviolence in all Indian thought, and then close with the discussion of the radical contrast between this nonviolence and the holistic - not solely ecological - environmentalism of our own times, interesting though it is that Indian thought today sees, by and large, no such contrast. |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accept Acquiescence afraid Ahimsa argue argument arhat Basava Bodhisattva brāhmaṇa bring Buddha Buddhist Chakravarti cited clearly commentary context course death Delhi demerit accrues Demerit through Mediate Der Spiegel deriving desire dharma doctrine eat flesh eaten eating animal flesh Edited enpatu entirely environmental ethics eristic fault attributed Ficus religiosa gropings guess guilt hence human idea ill-deeds India Indian thought individualistic self-referentialism Indologie infra inherent intended involved Jaina answer Jainism Kālidāsa kāraṇāt karma Let me add let me refer look Madras Mahabharata Manusmrti means Mediate Agency merely merit Mokkalan moral mutalāyina natural Nilakēci nonviolence passage past forms person plants question Rāmānuja rationale rebirth rejected Samayadi Samayadivākara Sanskrit Schmithausen sense sentient simply Śiva slain slaying living Srinivasan surely Tamil teaching Tolkāppiyam translation transmissional trees Tyāgarāja validatability Verlag verse violence words worship xvff Yudhisthira இது இனி என்னை கொலை நீ பொருள் போல மாம்ஸம் முதலாயின மென்பது மென்று ள்
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xxiv - I am surpriz'd to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation...
Seite xxiv - In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remark'd, that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary way of reasoning, and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs; when of a sudden I am surpriz'd to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, 1 meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not.
Seite v - If a blind man were to ask me "Have you got two hands?" I should not make sure by looking. If I were to have any doubt of it, then I don't know why I should trust my eyes.