From Good Knowers to Just Knowers in the Mahãbhãrata : Towards a Comparative Virtue Epistemology

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 74:195-220 (2014)
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Adopting the framework of Anglo Analytic Virtue Epistemology, I ask of the Sanskrit epic, the Mahrata, the question: What sort of character or must a have? Then, inspired by broadly feminist sensibilities, I raise the concern whether dispositions for knowing the world can be associated with motivations to rectify injustices in that world just knower.virtues of truth’ in the epic to see whether they can establish a connection between knowing and justice

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reprint Dalmiya, Vrinda (2014) "From good knowers to just knowers in the Mahãbhãrata: towards a comparative virtue epistemology". In O'Hear, Anthony, Philosophical Traditions, pp. : Cambridge University Press (2014)

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Vrinda Dalmiya
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