Gita and Kant: An Ethical Study
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PublisherChaukhamba Surbharati Prakashan
ISBN / ASIN9381484988
ISBN-139789381484982
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Language: English
Pages: 354
About The Book
Gita and Kant: Ann Ethical study- The Bhagaved Gita inculcates the threefold method of Karmayoga, Bhaktiyoga and Jnanayuga, The word Yoga is attached to the term Karma to coin the new technical term Karmayoga by the Bhagavad-Gita.
The Gita ethics is the ethics of activism Karmayoga. It is not the ethics of inaction or renunciation of action Sannyasa. It does not teach antisocial escapism. Both renunciation Sannyasa and discharge of duties with detachment and conductive to the highest good. The life of action is better than renunciation. The ethics of the Gita is not ascetism but perfectionism. The highest good of an individual is the self realization though selfless pursuit of the good of humanity Lokasamgraha.
There is some similarity between the Gita ethics of Niskama-Karma and Kant’s ethics of duty for duty’s sake. Both enjoin the performance of duties for the sake of duty without being actuated by love, hatred, fear, anger, greed and other emotions. Both enjoin the performance of duties any desire for fruits or any consideration of ends and consequences. Both are anti-utilitarian so for they resemble each other.
The present work is quite well studied containing both comparative and critical account on two prominent ethical views of the east and the west, i.e. Gita and Kant. The gamut covered is very vast, and despite that, the scholar has neither missed an important point nor dwelt on superfluously. Right from the Vedic to the system of Vedanta and from Pythagoras to Ayer, the ethical views are surveyed authentically. The exclusive treatment in detail on the ethics of the Gita and than that of Kant, in separates chapters after the survey of earlier eastern and western views respectively, ha
Pages: 354
About The Book
Gita and Kant: Ann Ethical study- The Bhagaved Gita inculcates the threefold method of Karmayoga, Bhaktiyoga and Jnanayuga, The word Yoga is attached to the term Karma to coin the new technical term Karmayoga by the Bhagavad-Gita.
The Gita ethics is the ethics of activism Karmayoga. It is not the ethics of inaction or renunciation of action Sannyasa. It does not teach antisocial escapism. Both renunciation Sannyasa and discharge of duties with detachment and conductive to the highest good. The life of action is better than renunciation. The ethics of the Gita is not ascetism but perfectionism. The highest good of an individual is the self realization though selfless pursuit of the good of humanity Lokasamgraha.
There is some similarity between the Gita ethics of Niskama-Karma and Kant’s ethics of duty for duty’s sake. Both enjoin the performance of duties for the sake of duty without being actuated by love, hatred, fear, anger, greed and other emotions. Both enjoin the performance of duties any desire for fruits or any consideration of ends and consequences. Both are anti-utilitarian so for they resemble each other.
The present work is quite well studied containing both comparative and critical account on two prominent ethical views of the east and the west, i.e. Gita and Kant. The gamut covered is very vast, and despite that, the scholar has neither missed an important point nor dwelt on superfluously. Right from the Vedic to the system of Vedanta and from Pythagoras to Ayer, the ethical views are surveyed authentically. The exclusive treatment in detail on the ethics of the Gita and than that of Kant, in separates chapters after the survey of earlier eastern and western views respectively, ha
