HIST 387 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Molveno, Moral Disengagement, Dharma
11 Oct 2016
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Religion, change, and violence: two contradictory motifs & gandhi"s paradox. Every tradition has a systematic set of beliefs. Often told in story form, or myths and legends. Regularly repeated, traditional, and carefully prescribed set of behaviors that symbolizes as value or a belief. Provide social structures to provide for warrior and pacifist motifs. Submerge the ego on behalf of the the unit, ideal, god. Acts that are usually forbidden or criminal acts are protected and legitimized and. Prepares to do but loses his will to fight. Sacred duty to fight, despite his resistance. It is the dharma of the warrior. Not responsible, god is doing it not you. Vision: cross of light superimposed on the son. Won a decisive battle at the bridge of molveno. Religious accounts for the use of violence. Anger prevents you from being close to god. Eye for an eye isn"t good enough. Christ in disarming peter ungirt every soldiers.
