CMCL 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pandava, Dharma, Vedas
22 Sep 2017
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Fca #1: individuals at top of hierarchy validated by respect of peers and power over slaves; a life worth living is characterized by respect or by being honoured". Fca #2: honour earned by courage in facing death as well as one"s ability to inflict death on others via prowess in fighting (justifies one"s place at the top of the hierarchy) Fca #3: greatest level of honour is akin to glory, which is a substitute for immortality (a quality that defines the gods") and allows hero to live forever in the tales told of him. Fca #4: fate (akin to fatality) defines the limits of life and is a pre-ordained pattern of events a possible foreshadowing of science. Fca #5: because human life is essentially tragic, glory becomes an addictive compulsion of embodying a substitutive immortality. Fca #6: because life is essentially enjoyable for those at the top of the hierarchy, its loss in death is a kind of tragedy.
