Describe the categories of the caste system, and explain how they function within Hindu thought and practice.
What will be an ideal response?
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Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can be doubted only by those who are ignorant of the evidence or are resistant to evidence, owing to emotional blocks or to plain bigotry. By contrast, the mechanisms that bring evolution about certainly need study and clarification. There are no alternatives to evolution as history that can withstand critical examination. Yet we are constantly learning new and important facts about evolutionary mechanisms.
What will be an ideal response?
An argument has an implicit normative premise if and only if
A) it has a missing premise about the facts. B) it has a missing conclusion that is a value judgment. C) it has a missing premise that is a value judgment.
Sanatana dharma refers to the practice of ritual bathing
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Write a fictional dialogue between two students, one from India or China, and one from America, exploring Eastern and Western perspectives on the nature of reality, of God (or ultimate religious reality), of self, and the nature of a good life. The American student can speak from two or more of the Western points of view that have been explored in this book (including Descartes, Spinoza, Locke,
Kant, etc.). The Eastern student should focus on two or more of the following: Indian philosophies of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, or Daoism. Your goal should be to clarify what the differences actually are and to look for areas of common ground. What will be an ideal response?