The Ends of Human Life
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Rajeev Bhargava is currently an honorary fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (Delhi) and the director of its Parekh Institute of Indian Thought.
Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University in Beijing, China.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rajeev Bhargava
1 Fame, Ambition and Selflessness in Indian Moral Discourse
Patrick Olivelle
2 Confucian Way-Making (dao ?) and the Trivarga: A
Rationalizing of 'the Ends of Life' or the Aesthetic of
Exemplary Lives Lived?
Roger T. Ames
3 The Sequential Problem of the Eight Human Aims in the
Great Learning
Chenyang Li
4 The Fifth Puru?artha: Bhakti as The End of Life
Sudipta Kaviraj
5 Puru?arthas and the Art of Human Seeking
Rakesh Pandey
6 Dialogue and Dharma in the Mahabharata: The Case of
Draupadi¯'s Marriage
Brian Black
7 Dharma in Transition and a Disenchanted World: The
Mahabharata, Ni?kama Karman, and An?sa?sya
Kanad Sinha
8 Understanding Kama in an Early Upanishadic Dialogue
Ananya Vajpeyi
9 Riders in the Chariot: Self-cultivation as a Means for
Attaining Happiness, Heaven and Nirva?a in Early Buddhism
Jens Schlieter
10 The Great Good of Relationship and Its Troubles
David B. Wong
11 Unveiling of Consciousness - Kavya as a Vehicle of Puru?artha
Radhavallabh Tripathi
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