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

By (author) Cogen Bohanec

ISBN13: 9781666943344

Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Publisher: Lexington Books

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Published: 15/07/2024

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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.
Acknowledgements Abbreviations 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 About the Author
  • Hinduism
  • Theology
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