Gandhi's discussions with others raised the question of developing a theory of, say, ahimsa, a theory that justifies some set of principles. Hence a...
Dear Satya, 1. The problem you raise is important. When one asks Gandhi "Does ahimsa not forbid the killing of calves?", this is equivalent to questions like...
... --I agree it is a manufactured problem. But I don't think it is necessarily that simple either. Even if someone wanted to challenge Gandhi's actions for...
... <jakobderoover@y...> wrote: Even when reading Gandhi's autobiography, I sometimes had the impression he talks about selflessness in the same normative way....
... would have raised ethical concerns for Gandhiji, even *if* he was quite sure it needed to be killed. The other day, I heard that they found a scorpion in...
... necessarily that simple either. ... reasons, the inability of ... normative ones presents a ... hollow to us. All problems are manufactured in one way or...
... calf ... --Dear Divya (and vnr): It is not so much killing the calf as the calf's terminal state that raises the challenge. Calf is down. Gandhi and others...
... referring ... to ... (dilemmas) ... In Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky distinguishes between the "hyperconscious man" and the "man of action", both ...
Dear Jakob: I do agree with much of what you say, but I had a slightly different take (whether justifiably on not) on what Gandhi said. ... The ... give. ... ...
... Even If it is granted that Indians see more choices than westerns do, it does not help us how the learning differs; if so, in what way? Just in having more...
... referring ... simply to ... (dilemmas) ... do, ... Just ... --To clarify, I am not saying that Indians see more choices than westerners do. Quite the ...
... --From what Balu writes in 'moral domains; it seems almost predictable that there should be a dichotomy like dostoevsky draws. My 'claim' (if you can call...
Dear Satya, 1. Your take on what Gandhi says in the different texts on the calf/monkeys issue is certainly more balanced than the 'anything goes' answer I...
... Gandhi to Jimmy Carter ... between the two ... euthanized. ... were.) An American rancher routinely slaughters his animals for beef and to make a living....
Dear Jakob, The issue of Gandhiji having shot a calf is still believed to be a potent one, even 80 years after the fact. How I came to be interested in it is...
Jakob, The pursuit of science as the discovery of God's Will was openly acknowledged by many scientists (including Newton, for instance); today its secular...
... One explicit break with theology came with Darwin's Theory of Evolution, and subsequent developments in that theory. We will go wrong if we go back to the...
Arun, Thanks for the links--interesting reading! It seems easy to locate the break (or re-marriage) with theology in a case like Evolution vs Intelligent...
Could someone help me with this quote from Chapter 8.1.5, p.264, par.4 of the new edition. I can't remember this equation being introduced or discussed ...
... Western Normative Ethics (WNE, hereafter) does not consider animals moral agents, for animals are not created in the image of God. Do the animals will? Do...
... There is only one form of knowledge: theoritical knowledge. Under this construal, all other knowledges, as it were, are derived from such a theoritical...
Under the construal of "problem solving activity," the demarcation criterion have to be given up--the question what distinguishes science from pseudo-science?...
With reference to : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheHeathenInHisBlindness/message/1429 Thanks for your comments on Gandhi and contradiction. As for knowledge...
... You've got it: additionally, you can check the last chapter how Hume misunderstood Ancient sceptics regarding this. And also, check article in files ...
Dear Kannan, I've been wanting to answer your questions for some time, but I am leaving for a long stay in India tomorrow and there is a lot of practical stuff...
Dear Jakob: I do agree with you, and this is precisely what I mean when I say Gandhi's arguments sound hollow. Gandhiji seems a bit confused, to say the least....
... If we can give an account, which we cant, wherein causes = intentions, we can say religion is a human account. ... Religion includes what it says about...
... comes into being and explains the origin and the reproduction of religion not of this or that religion but of religion as such) in human societies, then my...
... You can count as theory of religion the hypothesis that religion is an EI account of itself and of cosmos. This hypothesis is posited to explain the...
... religion>>>>>>>> If you scratch the EIA you'll find religion. But I don't see why it should be considered a theological account rather than an account of ...
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