POL300H1 Lecture Notes - Smriti, Civitas, Transcendentalism
14 Apr 2014
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Review: smrti, arjuna, zealots, anti judaism, malicide, slave mortality, hisma (a hisma, canons of perfection, renunciation of fruits of action, agape, peaceable kingdom. Key points last week: religions possess rival traditions on violence and non violence, religious texts are interpreted on these questions in multiple ways, feedback loop between east and west in creation of ideology of non violence resistance , renouncing fruits, monastic answer, gita: worldly obligations vs. renunciation, oppenheimer: duty= calling, job, gandhi: duty= moral law. Walden pond 1854: authentic identity, moved to the pond and wanted to be alone with the essence of nature, true economy, experimental communion with nature, eat a woodchuck raw. Mennonites: scriptural literalists, non resistance do not resist and evildoer , quietist: sectarian, not political or involved in polis or civic, involved in the life of the city (civitas, perfectionistic: the perfect law of love, not just fear of punishment .
