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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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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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