The difficulty of being good : on the subtle art of dharma / Gurcharan Das

By:

Das, Gurcharan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Penguin Group, 2012.Description: lii, 434 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9780143418979

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DDC classification:

294.5923 DAS

Contents:

Prelude: I take an academic holiday Duryodhana's envy: "what man of mettle will stand to see his rivals prosper and himself decline" Draupadi's courage: "who did you lose first, yourself or me?" Yudhisthira's duty: "I act because I must" Arjuna's despair: "there are no victors in war" Bhishma's selflessness: "be intent on the act, not its fruits" Karna's status anxiety: "how could a doe give birth to this tiger?" Krishna's guile: "that is the way it is!" Aswatthama's revenge: "now I feel the whirligig of time" Yudhisthira's remorse: "this victory looks more like defeat to me" Mahabharata's dharma: "great king, you weep with all creatures" Conclusion: the difficulty of being good Appendix: dharma, the story of a word A short bibliographic essay

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Originally published: New Delhi : Allen Lane ; New York : Penguin Group (USA), 2009

Prelude: I take an academic holiday
Duryodhana's envy: "what man of mettle will stand to see his rivals prosper and himself decline"
Draupadi's courage: "who did you lose first, yourself or me?"
Yudhisthira's duty: "I act because I must"
Arjuna's despair: "there are no victors in war"
Bhishma's selflessness: "be intent on the act, not its fruits"
Karna's status anxiety: "how could a doe give birth to this tiger?"
Krishna's guile: "that is the way it is!"
Aswatthama's revenge: "now I feel the whirligig of time"
Yudhisthira's remorse: "this victory looks more like defeat to me"
Mahabharata's dharma: "great king, you weep with all creatures"
Conclusion: the difficulty of being good
Appendix: dharma, the story of a word
A short bibliographic essay

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