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WGU-Ethics Part IV
Question | Answer |
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Tapas | Austerities or self-denial |
Ashrama | Life cycle |
Dharma | Duty |
4 relative stages of Ashrama | 1.Studentship 2. Householder 3. Semi-retreat 4. Reunciation |
Studentship | Requiring disciplines, continence, and dedication to the teacher |
Householder | Entailing marriage, family and their obligations |
Semi-retreat | Gradual withdrawal from worldly pursuits and pleasures |
Renunciation | Leading to total withdrawal and contemplation |
Karma | Effects of a person’s actions that determine his destiny in the next incarnation |
Purushartha | Human ends. The outcome of the way you lived your life |
Gita | Locates itself in the middle of two opposing traditions. Abstinent and performative |
6 classical Hindu ethics | 1. Dharma (duty) 2. Karma (action-affect) 3. Ashrama ( life cycle) 4. Purushartha (human ends) 5. Gita (abstinent & Performative 6. Virtues (self-restraint, giving, |
Jaina ethics | One of the lesser known ethical traditions of India |
Who founded Jaina ethics | Mahavira – an unorthodox teacher thought to be a contemporary of Buddha, to whom he is often compared. |
Explain Jaina ethics | Reverence for all life. Would not kill any living thing. Would not eat meat. Would strain water so as not to harm any small creature. Cared for everything except self. |
Gandian Ethics | 1. Combines Satya, ashima and tapasya. 2. Mxed up and questioned Hindu practices |
Ashima | Non-injury |
Tapasya | Spirtual heat |
Dukka | Sense of unsatisfactoriness |
Nibbana | Bad consequences in another life |