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Living Morally Without Universal Morality

Saturday, January 9, 2010

A lot of the discussion on Swadharma focuses on how to be sure that we’re doing the right thing: How do we live a moral life?  So we decide that we want to live morally for various reasons, but how do we decide that what we do actually is moral?  If your definition of moral [...]

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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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