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A matter of convenience

Saturday, January 17, 2009

I was recently talking to my roommates, who are both practicing Christians, about the similarities and differences between Hinduism and Christianity.  As a student in Vidyapith, and as a student of Vedanta, I had always heard about Christianity’s similarities to Hinduism — how Christ can be thought of as an ideal karma yogi; how both [...]

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Hinduism, Aristotle, and the Dilemma of the Train

Saturday, October 11, 2008

As we were returning from an ancient political philosophy lecture on Plato’s pupil Aristotle, my roommate Palak and I discussed the theory of multiple goods and its engine of phronesis — together, Aristotle’s refutation of Plato’s argument that there exists one universal good.
After a small amount of time, I said, “Let us assume the existence [...]

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