Ep. 124: Religion and Ideology in Indian Society
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Importance of Intent in Discourse
I think any tradition should certainly try to incorporate the suspicion into it because there is a lot of I mean practices which are preserved in the name of just preserving the tradition. So if somebody is looking at it from a suspicious perspective bringing a hermitic of suspicion and saying that hey this particular practice is just going to preserve certain kind of privileges and all of that we should try to be fair to that perspective. It's not so simple to look at the consequence because there are no agreements on the consequence. The whole point of disagreement is that we disagree on what a good society might look like. If you were to think carefully and try to incorporate they might reveal some truths about society.
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