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Aug 2023
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1127: Happiness Through Flowing Within t...

RAGHUNATH CAPPO & KAUSTUBHA DAS
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Immanuel Kant’s view of morality / morality is designed to facilitate the realization of happiness / our wellbeing is determined by our willingness to flow within the universal laws / objective moral truths warrant a supernatural explanation / does morality develop out of evolutionary need? / secularists have trouble explaining why human beings have intrinsic value, rights, and moral obligations / Yamaraja explains that dharma is established by Bhagavan / to understand the confidential dharma you have to approach it through a valid lineage

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