Destiny and human initiative in the Mahābhārata
- 作者: Woods, Julian F.
- 出版: Albany : State University of New York Press 2001.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages).
- 叢書名: McGill studies in the history of religions
- 標題: RELIGION Hinduism -- Sacred Writings. , Mahābhārata Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Philosophy & Religion. , Religion. , Mahābhārata. , Mahābhārata Critique, interprétation, etc. , RELIGION , HinduismSacred Writings. , Hinduism. , Electronic books. , Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- ISBN: 0791490580 , 9780791490587
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical (pages 211-216) references and index. The Theme in Historical Perspective -- Focus of the Analysis -- The Epic Context -- Hermeneutical Perspectives -- Cosmic Destiny -- The Mythological Background -- The Epic Accounts -- Personal Destiny -- Problems and Anomalies -- Social Manifestations of Daiva -- Prophecies and Pronouncements -- Krsna as "Master of Yoga," -- Daiva and Karna -- Daiva and Duryodhana -- Krsna as Daiva -- Destiny and Human Initiative -- Tricks and Stratagems -- Daiva in Human Expression -- Purusakara -- Morality (Dharma) and Moral Conflict -- Action and Contemplation -- The Mythological Background -- Krsna's Transformation of Vedic Values -- Some Alternative Views -- The Path of the Warrior -- Draupadi's Impatience -- Kunti's Exhortation -- Yudhisthira's Grief -- Bhisma's Instructions -- Action and Retribution -- Purusakara as Moral Autonomy -- Vidura's "Wilderness of Life," -- The Path of Self-Determination -- The Spiritual Journey -- Moral Implications -- The Evolutionary Ladder -- The "Fate" of Human Action -- The Problem of Agency -- The Solution to the Antinomy of Providence -- Some Notes on Scholarship -- Figure: Family Connections in the Mahabharata.
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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-determination and freedom, but the epic reveals that we are not at all free but trapped in a vicious cycle of birth and death that can be broken only when we realize that our precious ego-self with its sense of agency is a mental fiction. The Mahabharata admits to a modicum of freedom in everyday life which, from a higher perspective, is nothing but destiny in disguise.
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