BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 RDATE:20200308T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 RDATE:20201101T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200131T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200131T163000 LOCATION:J.R. Howard Hall 202 GEO:45.451619;-122.669391 SUMMARY:"Householder\, Renunciate\, and the Good Life" by Chris Framarin (University of Calgary) DESCRIPTION: \;In brāhmaṇical Hindu traditions\, the householder a nd renunciate seem like opposites. The classical formulation of the āśr ama (modes of life) system might seem to reconcile these competing ideals . By relegating renunciation to old age\, the system allows a person to p ursue worldly life and liberation from the world within a single lifetime . This solution might seem more like an uneasy compromise\, however\, tha n a genuine reconciliation. Some of the earliest source material on the śrama system (the dharmasūtras of Gautama\, Āpastamba\, Baudhāyana\, and Vasiṣṭha)\, however\, suggests basic consistencies between the h ouseholder and the renunciate that have generally been ignored or underap preciated. First\, the debate over the relative rank of the householder a nd renunciate in these texts amounts to a debate over which mode of life is best for the person who lives it. The intense disagreement over how be st to secure optimal welfare is superficial in relation to the more funda mental agreement about the importance of securing optimal welfare. Second \, descriptions of those optimal states of welfare that the householder a nd renunciate pursue are remarkably consistent in these texts. Third\, wh ile conceptions of these optimal states of welfare diverge more dramatica lly in later texts\, the tensions are easier to reconcile in the context of the shared assumption about the importance of attaining personal prosp erity. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
\;In brāhmaṇical Hindu traditio ns\, the householder and renunciate seem like opposites. The classical fo rmulation of the āśrama (modes of life) system might seem to r econcile these competing ideals. By relegating renunciation to old age\, the system allows a person to pursue worldly life and liberation from the world within a single lifetime. This solution might seem more like an un easy compromise\, however\, than a genuine reconciliation. Some of the ea rliest source material on the āśrama system (the dharmasū tras of Gautama\, Āpastamba\, Baudhāyana\, and Vasiṣṭha)\, how ever\, suggests basic consistencies between the householder and the renun ciate that have generally been ignored or underappreciated. First\, the d ebate over the relative rank of the householder and renunciate in these t exts amounts to a debate over which mode of life is best for the person w ho lives it. The intense disagreement over how best to secure optimal wel fare is superficial in relation to the more fundamental agreement about t he importance of securing optimal welfare. Second\, descriptions of those optimal states of welfare that the householder and renunciate pursue are remarkably consistent in these texts. Third\, while conceptions of these optimal states of welfare diverge more dramatically in later texts\, the tensions are easier to reconcile in the context of the shared assumption about the importance of attaining personal prosperity.
UID:20200131T233000Z-308588@college.lclark.edu DTSTAMP:20191111T135918Z URL:https://college.lclark.edu/live/events/308588-householder-renunciate- and-the-good-life-by-chris CATEGORIES:Open to the Public LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T173908Z ATTACH:https://college.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/77/width/80/height/80/cr op/1/src_region/0,0,1932,2576/81960_722600ED-B636-4A18-9883-2DB01AF6D46F. rev.1578689362.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-TYPE:events X-LIVEWHALE-ID:308588 X-LIVEWHALE-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles X-LIVEWHALE-IMAGE:https://college.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/77/width/80/h eight/80/crop/1/src_region/0\,0\,1932\,2576/81960_722600ED-B636-4A18-9883 -2DB01AF6D46F.rev.1578689362.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-SUMMARY:In brāhmaṇical Hindu traditions\, the householder and renunciate seem like opposites. The classical formulation of the āśrama (modes of life) system might seem to reconcile these compet ing ideals. By relegating renunciation to old age\, the system allows a p erson to pursue worldly life and liberation from the world within a singl e lifetime. This solution might seem more like an uneasy compromise\, how ever\, than a genuine reconciliation. Some of the earliest source materia l on the āśrama system (the dharmasūtras of Gautama\ , Āpastamba\, Baudhāyana\, and Vasiṣṭha)\, however\, suggests basic consistencies between the householder and the renunciate that have gener ally been ignored or underappreciated. First\, the debate over the relati ve rank of the householder and renunciate in these texts amounts to a deb ate over which mode of life is best for the person who lives it. The inte nse disagreement over how best to secure optimal welfare is superficial i n relation to the more fundamental agreement about the importance of secu ring optimal welfare. Second\, descriptions of those optimal states of we lfare that the householder and renunciate pursue are remarkably consisten t in these texts. Third\, while conceptions of these optimal states of we lfare diverge more dramatically in later texts\, the tensions are easier to reconcile in the context of the shared assumption about the importance of attaining personal prosperity. X-LIVEWHALE-TAGS:faculty event|faculty|open to the public|philosophy coll oquium series|send-to-undergraduate|student event|student END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR