Tag Archives: dharma

Moral Interpretation in Hinduism

Monday, November 2, 2009

Recently, Santosh generated an interesting email thread by asking “What is ‘Hinduism’s official stance’ on premarital sex?” I saw this as an opportunity to explore how Hinduism approaches moral issues, what the consequences of Hinduism’s approach are, and why discussion of moral issues in Hinduism tends to be so clouded.
First, two points:
1) I think asking [...]

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Public and Private Dharma

Sunday, October 25, 2009

What happens when an individual’s conception of morals (or her/his dharma) comes into conflict with her/his society’s conception of morals?

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“Dharma, protected, protects”

Monday, October 19, 2009

I found G’s comment on the “Must Hindus believe in God?” thread very thought-provoking, and given that comments get unwieldy after a certain point, I wanted to take the time to respond to it using a full blog post.
First of all, I’m not entirely certain that  ”the larger good can probably be defined in terms of each person following [...]

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