THE HARMONY PRINCIPLE.
Ethics is central to Philosophy. Upanisadic and early Buddhist thought took values seriously. More recent Indian philosophical practice, this author argued with Daya Krishna, abandons this focus, and fails to engage moral questions with the same creativity, falling either into a repetition of utliti...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 586 - 605 |
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University of Hawai'i
Oct2013
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