Back To Basics: Reflections on Moral Discourse in A contemporary Hindu Community  

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Clooney, Francis X.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 20 no. 4 (Aug. 1995), page 439-457.
Topik: Playing God; Srivaisnava; Hinduism; Virtue

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Instead of Searching through Hindu sources for appropriate insights into the questions related to "playing God" in Biomedicine, the author seeks rather than to understand why some Hindu at lesat are not inclined to ask such questions. Using examples from the Srivaisnava sect of south India, the author shows how Srivaisnava Hindu focus primaly on character formation and practice of the virtues encoded in the classical texts, thereafter leaving it to the individual to "acts as he or she will" in the world outside the community-a world which is neutral vis a vis religious values, neither governed by such values nor able to instigate the adjusment of religious values, neither governed by such values to fit changing times. The question then becomes, "What do modern ethicits have to learn from the moral discourse of the Srivaisana community?

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