CMCL 301 Lecture Notes - Chanakya, Arthashastra, Virtual Reality
27 Feb 2014
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Fca - the most profound reality is brahman - a super consciousness. He"s a political realist not an idealist. Pleasures come from having a solid material base. You must focus on the material base if you don"t have a house, food, water, etc, the. Kama sutra won"t help you much because you don"t have time to enjoy pleasures in life. But you have to control it to obtain freedom! Freedom belongs to the warrior class because they control the land. If you don"t have control over the land, you don"t have pleasures in life (aka freedom) Assumption any member of the ruler class has the duty to fight so there will be wars. Land and the power to control that land. Kautilya doesn"t talk about politics he believes in monarchies chakras are like kings. Freedom means power power over land and ability to out-maneuver your opponent.
