Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahabharata
Considers the questions of free will in the great India epic, the Mahabharata.Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahabharata explores this epic's ongoing polemic regarding free will in the face of destiny. While the belief that human history is governed exclusively by external forces is evident in the Mahabharata, the epic also contains the commanding message of Kr's'n'a that the lives of individuals and societies may, and should indeed, be changed for the better through human initiative. Woods maintains that the resolution of this conundrum emerges from the epic's view of what it is to be a human being. We may harbor ideas about our self-de…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-9058-7
- EAN: 9780791490587
- Produktnummer: 35073102
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 247 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 962 KB
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