Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gau?iya Vai??ava Metaethics

Cogen Bohanec (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-4334-4 (ISBN)

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Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Metaethics explores the broader implications of understanding bhakti, “devotional love to the divine,” as an ethical theory based on a “realist” account of emotions, where emotions are sensory perceptions of the real ethical qualities of classes of actions. The book spotlights one complex articulation of an Indian epistemology and ontology of ethics based on the metaphysics of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava psychology of emotions in dialogue with a variety of academic fields, including the philosophy of religion and related methodologies such as virtue ethics, theological voluntarism, and ecofeminist and feminist care ethics. The work discusses how emotions are understood metaphysically as extra-mental, objectively real qualities, what Cogen Bohanec refers to as “affective realism.” This follows from a cosmogenic model where the universe emanates from the loving relationship between the divine feminine, Rādhā, and her intense loving relationship with her masculine counterpart, Kṛṣṇa. Since the origin of all of reality emanates from the ultimacy of an affective relationship, then the fabric of reality can be described as having objectively real affective qualities and that is the basis for grounding this ethical system.

Cogen Bohanec is assistant professor in Sanskrit and Jain Studies at Arihanta Institute.

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Introduction

Part I: Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Ethics

Chapter 1: The Problem: Fact, Value, and Burden of Proof

Chapter 2: Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Virtue Ethics

Chapter 3: Theological Voluntarism in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Theo-ethics

Chapter 4: Moral Affect and Ecofeminist Care Ethics

Part II: Affective Ethical Realism and The Spiritual Telos

Chapter 5: Bhakti as Affective Realism

Chapter 6: Emanation, Bifurcated Cosmology, and Affective Realism

Chapter 7: Divine Affect and the Relational Dynamics of Grace

Chapter 8: Profile of Affective Conditions and Their Development

Conclusion

Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	18.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 235 mm
Gewicht	617 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	1-6669-4334-7 / 1666943347
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-4334-4 / 9781666943344
Zustand	Neuware