Pratap Bhanu Mehta on The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Ideas of India
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The Idea of Virtue and Morality in India
In india, the way we think ot what is virtuous behavior comes from a group identity which is relying on a religious norm or practice. I don't want to minimize the fact that there are deep differences between society's right and smith actually catalogues of a lot of them locomen. What is appropriate for io, what he might call an age of shepherds, a nomadic society, will not be appropriate for more advanced commercial society. There is both sort of temporal and spetial variety that tink ithing, insensicnd of accounts foright. In some senses, a certain conception of a kind of desireless existence, right? Is a very powerful cultural ideal
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