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BeitrÄnge zur Altertumskunde
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ISBN: 9783110443776 3110443775 9783110448047 9783110447651 3110448041 9783110448054 311044805X 3110447657 Year: 2016 Volume: 350 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Diagoras of Melos (lyric poet, 5th c. B.C.) has received special attention for some time now because he was regarded as a radical atheist and the author of a prose work on atheism in antiquity. He was notorious for revealing and ridiculing the Eleusinian Mysteries and was condemned for impiety at Athens. The present book evaluates Diagoras’ biography and shows that he cannot be considered to have been an atheist in the modern sense.


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The Gita within Walden
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ISBN: 0791477479 1435695496 9781435695498 9780791477472 9780791476178 0791476170 9780791477472 Year: 2008 Publisher: Albany, NY SUNY Press

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Looks at the connections between Thoreau's Walden and the work that influenced it, the Bhagavad-Gita.


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Bhagavadgita
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ISBN: 0773411550 9780773411555 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press

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This work enables scholars to analyze more deeply the meanings of these foundational verses of ancient Hindu wisdom. The text allows readers not only to utilize the author's adept translation and interpretation, but affords them the tools necessary to form independent conclusions.


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Jnāneshvari
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ISBN: 0585090068 9780585090061 1438407920 Year: 1987 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press


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Political thought in action
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ISBN: 9781139524018 9781107033955 1139524011 9781107056008 1107056004 1107033950 1107054915 9781107054912 1107058287 9781107058286 1107059585 9781107059580 1107070201 1107057094 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Bhagavad Gita's philosophical and political significance remains forever contemporary. In this volume a group of leading historians reflect on the significance of the Bhagavad Gita for political and ethical thinking in modern India and beyond. These essays contribute new perspectives to historical, contemporary and global political ideas. Violence and nonviolence, war, sacrifice, justice, fraternity and political community were constitutive of India's political modernity, and it was to these questions that Indian public figures turned their attention in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Oriented towards the future, these commentaries and interpretations of a text that locates war as the central problem of human life have detached the Gita from antiquity and made it foundational for India's modernity. The book would be of interest to academic researchers as well as general readers interested in South Asian history, Indian philosophy and religion.

The Bhagavadgītā
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ISBN: 9780521883641 0521883644 9780511488290 9780521122115 9780511379253 0511379250 0511488297 1107185939 1281243809 9786611243807 0511378386 0511377509 0511376561 0511375034 0521122112 9780511377501 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Bhagavadgita is one of the most renowned texts of Hinduism because it contains discussions of important issues such as liberation and the nature of action as well as the revelation of the Krishna as the highest god and creator of the universe. It is included in the ancient Indian Mahabharata epic at one of its most dramatic moments, that is, when the final battle is about to begin. In contrast to many other studies, this book deals with the relationship between the Bhagavadgita and its epic contexts. On the basis of a thorough analysis of the text Angelika Malinar argues that its theology delineates not only new philosophical concepts and religious practices but also addresses the problem of righteous kingship and appropriate use of power. Malinar concludes by considering the Bhagavadgita's historical and cultural contexts and those features of the text that became paradigmatic in later Hindu religious traditions.


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Business ethics and the Bhagavad Gita : cost of unethical acts: directions of the Dharmātman for ethical leadership
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ISBN: 3030456307 3030456293 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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The author of this book asserts that an absence of ethical leadership and unethical practices were the reasons for major global business scandals such as Enron, Satyam, Lehman Brothers, and WorldCom. This book analyses the causes for these unethical activities and interprets important verses from The Bhagavad Gita to show business executives and leaders how to lead ethically for the greater good of all stakeholders and society. As a remedy to avoid future scandals, the author points to several ethical directions, and the principle of Dharma, mentioned in The Bhagavad Gita by Lord Krishna, a major deity in Hinduism, who is considered Dharmātman (one who imbibes the Dharma). Written in conversation style using an executive education scenario, this book examines real world cases in various sectors like education, medical, non-government organizations (NGOs) and retail using the directions of the Dharmātman.

Thucydides' war narrative
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ISBN: 9786612357473 1282357476 0520930975 159875940X 9780520930971 1423745442 9781423745440 9781282357471 9780520241275 0520241274 9781598759402 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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As a sustained analysis of the connections between narrative structure and meaning in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Carolyn Dewald's study revolves around a curious aspect of Thucydides' work: the first ten years of the war's history are formed on principles quite different from those shaping the years that follow. Although aspects of this change in style have been recognized in previous scholarship, Dewald has rigorously analyzed how its various elements are structured, used, and related to each other. Her study argues that these changes in style and organization reflect how Thucydides' own understanding of the war changed over time. Throughout, however, the History's narrative structure bears witness to Thucydides' dialogic efforts to depict the complexities of rational choice and behavior on the part of the war's combatants, as well as his own authorial interest in accuracy of representation. In her introduction and conclusion, Dewald explores some ways in which details of style and narrative structure are central to the larger theoretical issue of history's ability to meaningfully represent the past. She also surveys changes in historiography in the past quarter-century and considers how Thucydidean scholarship has reflected and responded to larger cultural trends.


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Spirituality and Indian psychology : lessons from the Bhagavad-Gita
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ISBN: 1441981098 9786613079909 1441981101 1283079909 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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In recent years, globalization, multiculturalism, and Western interest in Eastern thought have contributed to the growth of cross-cultural psychology. Paradoxically, however, while spirituality plays such a major role in non-Western cultures, it tends to occupy only a minor area of cross-cultural research.   Its roots in ancient philosophical texts such as the Bhagavad-Gita make Indian psychology not only an especially rich tradition and one deserving of close study, but also a template for how Western researchers can better understand indigenous spiritual perspectives. From this vantage point, Spirituality and Indian Psychology: Lessons from the Bhagavad-Gita provides accessible models for this understanding, from issues on the individual level (cognition, behavior, emotions, the self) to larger concerns such as intergroup relations and world peace, rarely-encountered concepts of work, bondage/liberation, and desire as well as the more familiar karma and dharma. In addressing the question of whether universals exist in psychology, this thought-provoking book:   Presents indigenous psychological perspective in terms of one representative worldview. Contrasts the Indian worldview with Western scientific culture. Analyzes an indigenous research methodology based on culturally relevant concepts. Offers spirituality-based models for mapping basic psychological processes and their relationships. Clarifies relationships among indigenous, cross-cultural, and Western psychologies. Cross-cultural psychologists, sociologists, researchers in Indian psychology and culture—anyone involved in the continuing dialogue across the psychologies of the world and advancing the indigenous research agenda will find Spirituality and Indian Psychology a volume of rare interest and insight.

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