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− | Indian thinkers viewed philosophy as a practical necessity that needed to be cultivated in order to understand how life can best be led. It became a custom for Indian writers to explain at the beginning of philosophical works how it serves human ends ({{IAST|puruṣārtha}}).<ref>Chatterjee and Datta, p.12. | + | Indian thinkers viewed philosophy as a practical necessity that needed to be cultivated in order to understand how life can best be led. It became a custom for Indian writers to explain at the beginning of philosophical works how it serves human ends (puruṣārtha).Chatterjee and Datta, p.12. |
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− | The idea of, translated as "righteousness" or "the cosmic and social order" by Gavin Flood, Flood, pp. 45, 47. plays a pervasive role, as Chatterjee and Datta explain:
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− | "A firm faith in 'an eternal moral order' dominates the entire history of Indian philosophy, barring the solitary exception of the [[Carvaka|Cārvāka]] materialists. It is the common atmosphere of faith in which all these systems, Vedic and non-Vedic, theistic and atheistic, move and breathe. The faith in an order — a law that makes for regularity and righteousness and works in the gods, the heavenly bodies and all creatures — pervades the imagination of the seers of [[Rigveda|''Ṛig-veda'']] which calls this inviolable moral order. Chatterjee and Datta, p. 14.
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| [[Category: Philosophy]] | | [[Category: Philosophy]] |