Dharma/Adharma: Hindu Ethical Reasoning

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What values are advanced in Hindu religious and ethical teachings? How do Hindu texts and traditions define and teach the good life and virtuous living? Is moral responsibility conditioned by caste, class, gender or other socioeconomic factors? These are some of the questions that will be considered in this study on Hindu modes of moral reasoning.This course will also make sense of the structure of chaos (adharma) and the chaos of structure (dharma) and thereby suggest that adharma might somewhat make more sense than dharma.