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 \ ;āśrama \;(modes of life) system might seem to reconcile these comp eting ideals. By relegating renunciation to old age\, the system allows a person to pursue worldly life and liberation from the world within a sin gle lifetime. This solution might seem more like an uneasy compromise\, h owever\, than a genuine reconciliation. Some of the earliest source mater ial on the \;āśrama \;system (the \;dharmasūtras \;of Gautama\, Āpastamba\, Baudhāyana\, and Vasiṣṭha)\, however\, sugges ts basic consistencies between the householder and the renunciate that ha ve generally been ignored or underappreciated. First\, the debate over th e relative rank of the householder and 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 best to secure optimal welfare is super ficial in relation to the more fundamental agreement about the importance of securing optimal welfare. Second\, descriptions of those optimal stat es of welfare that the householder and renunciate pursue are remarkably c onsistent in these texts. Third\, while conceptions of these optimal stat es of welfare diverge more dramatically in later texts\, the tensions are easier to reconcile in the context of the shared assumption about the im portance of attaining personal prosperity. 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 mig ht seem to reconcile these competing ideals. By relegating renunciation t o old age\, the system allows a person to pursue worldly life and liberat ion from the world within a single lifetime. This solution might seem mor e like an uneasy compromise\, however\, than a genuine reconciliation. So me of the earliest source material on the \;āśrama \;s ystem (the \;dharmasūtras \;of Gautama\, Āpastamba\, B audhāyana\, and Vasiṣṭha)\, however\, suggests basic consistencies b etween the householder and the renunciate that have generally been ignore d or underappreciated. First\, the debate over the relative rank of the h ouseholder and renunciate in these texts amounts to a debate over which m ode of life is best for the person who lives it. The intense disagreement over how best to secure optimal welfare is superficial in relation to th e more fundamental agreement about the importance of securing optimal wel fare. Second\, descriptions of those optimal states of welfare that the h ouseholder and renunciate pursue are remarkably consistent in these texts . Third\, while conceptions of these optimal states of welfare diverge mo re dramatically in later texts\, the tensions are easier to reconcile in the context of the shared assumption about the importance of attaining pe rsonal prosperity.
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