I really don't know why you bring up the point of my being a Hindu
Oh just to suggest that my knowledge and experience is incredibly limited to that of your good self on this subject.
Rta is a term for the universal principle from which the moral (or Dharmic) conclusions naturally follow specific to various situations.
All I have read suggests that it an ordering principle that covers the moral and physical world. I don't think that such a principle is possible because facts and norms are incommensurable.
I mean, nowhere at all does the concept of Rta imply anything like "people hurt each other, we are people, so let's hurt each other."
I'm not suggesting that at all. But dharma does attempt to ground varna which confers certain social advantages which could be described as harmful to those excluded.
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Date: 2011-12-08 08:29 pm (UTC)Oh just to suggest that my knowledge and experience is incredibly limited to that of your good self on this subject.
Rta is a term for the universal principle from which the moral (or Dharmic) conclusions naturally follow specific to various situations.
All I have read suggests that it an ordering principle that covers the moral and physical world. I don't think that such a principle is possible because facts and norms are incommensurable.
I mean, nowhere at all does the concept of Rta imply anything like "people hurt each other, we are people, so let's hurt each other."
I'm not suggesting that at all. But dharma does attempt to ground varna which confers certain social advantages which could be described as harmful to those excluded.