RELS 2243 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Alasdair Macintyre, Shamhat, Cedar Forest

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 2243
• Professor: Tracy Derynck

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Rels 2243 midterm exam 2 study guide. Lust: charity (vs. greed, temperance (vs. gluttony, diligence (vs. sloth, patience (vs. Ishtar falls in love with gilgamesh, but he rebukes her. Hinduism: terms, "the problem" of human life, origins, brahman: highest/ultimate reality in hinduism; all gods are aspects of it; element of it in all beings, purusa: primordial consciousness; "cosmic self"; substance that makes up humans, the self: Jnana yoga: path of knowledge: studying, contemplation, meditation. Love (vs. selfishness), courage (vs. cowardice), prudence (vs. naivety: deontological ethics. Innocent people ought to be protected (pacifists aren"t trying: one ought to do everything necessary to protect (pacifists don"t, consequentialist ethics. Jwt doesn"t go that far either: doing everything necessary eventually leads to terrorism. Buddhism (keown: terms, theravada: ancient teaching, achieving nirvana for oneself as an arhat, need to be a monk to attain this.