Category Archives: Morality

Digital ahimsa: Hinduism in the world of video games

Friday, March 26, 2010

Over this past week of spring break here at Harvard, I reconnected with an old hobby — playing video games. I purchased a game called Bioshock from the local electronics store, having heard that it is based on Atlas Shrugged, an astounding novel that I enjoyed.
The premise, like many games today, is that you get [...]

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Well, hello there.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

My name is Matt. I’m a full-fledged Catholic, a convert from secularism and everything. I am interested primarily in theology and morality, to the extent of making religion my primary concentration here. I am fascinated by ethics and metaphysics.
To start off what will hopefully be a fruitful experience of blogging across religious lines, let me [...]

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Selections from Rajaji’s Mahabharata

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

One of my many purchases on a recent trip to India was a copy of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari’s English translation of the Mahabharata.  Rajaji (1878-1972) was an important Indian statesman, but he spent a bit of his active life on literature and religion rather than politics.  His Mahabharata is ~450 pages long, which can hardly include [...]

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