Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Syncretism of various kinds is clearly in evidence in the Bhagavad Gītā, yet no attempt has been made to show how a consistent ethical syncretism might be articulated and defended in the scholarship.I attempt to do so here by trying to defend a form of consequentialism that allows a place for deontological and virtue-centric intuitions.At the same time, I show that because such consequentialism has freedom (mokṣa) as its highest end, it is more consistent than, and not reducible to, standard western variations of consequentialism.
Author: Roopen MAJITHIA
Institution: Mount Allison University
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Mount Allison University
OpenAlex ID: W2885642385