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Avatara: The Humanization of Philosophy Through the Bhagavad Gita
 
 
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Avatara: The Humanization of Philosophy Through the Bhagavad Gita [Paperback]

Antonio T. de Nicolas (Author)
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April 30, 2003
Professor de Nicolas presents the reader with actualized possibilities of knowing other cultures as they knew themselves. In his work, philosophy becomes an ongoing synthesis of knowledge and sensation. This new translation of The Bhagavad Gita, with its easy and beautiful reading, is a major philosophical attempt to read a most important text of a culture in it's own context.

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Dr. Antonio T. de Nicolas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York, at Stony Brook. He has written, translated or edited some twenty seven books. And is as well known for his prose as his poetry.

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  • Paperback: 500 pages
  • Publisher: iUniverse; "new edition" edition (April 30, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0595276563
  • ISBN-13: 978-0595276561
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,226,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic on decision-making!, July 10, 2003
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While all of Western Education is focused on limiting the capacity for decision making to just veridical situations (true, false, good, evil etc.) this classic text shows how decisions in complex situations are to be made( as in fighting a war), and what neural equipment is necessary to carry out those decisions. East and West join hands here to point out a tradition centered on how in every complex situation the best choice among the possible is to be made, and this by habit, as Plato suggested for the educated person. This training, however, is absent in our Religious and Academic Institutions. High time someone noticed. Let the reader decide.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
manas interpretation, lower prakrti, position about knowledge, called tamasic, theoretic consciousness, sovereign secret, radical orientation, radical ground, mediating ground, sovereign knowledge, embodied vision, certain definite way, cultural will, historical domains, cultural man
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Blessed One, Son of Kunti, Bhagavad Gitd, Bhagavad Gita, Unshaken One, Krsna's World, Bhagavad Gitcc, Son of Pándu, Lord of Earth, The Yoga of Understanding, The Yoga of Action, Abode of the World, Best of the Bháratas, Exciter of Men, Human Crisis
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