RELI 4225 Living Deliciously

This course engages directly with the things Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain ascetics purportedly avoid. Through primary sources, students will have the opportunity to see a worldly life as not undisciplined at all. Rather, being in the world comes with its own ethical and aesthetic disciplines. Texts that prescribe these worldly ways fastidiously categorize, organize, and evaluate in order to enjoy the world properly. In fact, they are often composed by religious authorities who ostensible are supposed to reject such ways of being. As such, we will see that in Classical South Asia there are proper and improper ways to live a good life and have a good time.

Credits

3