- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Towards a World of Freedom*
- 2 The Right Perception of Self-interest*
- 3 State Must Free the Mind from Fear*
- 4 Fear as the Basis of Social Order*
- 5 Dharma and Jainism
- 6 Human Freedom and Rights
- 7 Truth in Jainism
- 8 The Dharmic Law
- 9 The Dharmic State
- 10 The Caring State
- 11 The Caring State
- 12 Government Governs in Place of Law*
- 13 Unity of Life
- 14 Dharma and Islam—I
- 15 Dharma and Islam—II
- 16 The Supreme Court—I
- 17 The Supreme Court—II
- 18 To Have or To Be—I
- 19 To Have or To Be—II
- 20 Unity of Life
- 21 Personal and Social Health
- 22 The Paradox of Sex—I
- 23 The Paradox of Sex—II
- 24 The Human Condition
- 25 Learning to Live
- 26 The Roots of Violence—I
- 27 The Roots of Violence—II
- 28 The Love of Violence—I
- 29 The Love of Violence—II
- 30 The Power of Mind—I
- 31 The Power of Mind—II
- 32 Power of Perception
- 33 The Karma Conundrum
- 34 Jainism and Relativity
- 35 Beyond Either/Or
- About the Editor
To Have or To Be—I
To Have or To Be—I
Sick Systems, Sick Human Beings*
- Chapter:
- (p.77) 18 To Have or To Be—I
- Source:
- Chaturvedi Badrinath
- Author(s):
Tulsi Badrinath
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The prevailing economic and political systems, with global market as its centre and greed for more as its driving force, must destroy the very thing without which, even in its own terms, it cannot exist: human freedom and liberty. Badrinath says that in the Mahabharata there is a sustained enquiry into the proper place of wealth in human living. If wrong perceptions create individual and social sickness, right perceptions are the way to peace and well being. It is important to have method by which we reach right perceptions. That is what the Mahabharata and the Jaina philosophy offer us in this age where social and individual sickness is more common than social health and well being, Badrinath says.
Keywords: Eric Fromm, Mahabharata, Jainism, well being, having mode versus being mode of living
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Towards a World of Freedom*
- 2 The Right Perception of Self-interest*
- 3 State Must Free the Mind from Fear*
- 4 Fear as the Basis of Social Order*
- 5 Dharma and Jainism
- 6 Human Freedom and Rights
- 7 Truth in Jainism
- 8 The Dharmic Law
- 9 The Dharmic State
- 10 The Caring State
- 11 The Caring State
- 12 Government Governs in Place of Law*
- 13 Unity of Life
- 14 Dharma and Islam—I
- 15 Dharma and Islam—II
- 16 The Supreme Court—I
- 17 The Supreme Court—II
- 18 To Have or To Be—I
- 19 To Have or To Be—II
- 20 Unity of Life
- 21 Personal and Social Health
- 22 The Paradox of Sex—I
- 23 The Paradox of Sex—II
- 24 The Human Condition
- 25 Learning to Live
- 26 The Roots of Violence—I
- 27 The Roots of Violence—II
- 28 The Love of Violence—I
- 29 The Love of Violence—II
- 30 The Power of Mind—I
- 31 The Power of Mind—II
- 32 Power of Perception
- 33 The Karma Conundrum
- 34 Jainism and Relativity
- 35 Beyond Either/Or
- About the Editor
