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The Text, Context, and Message of the Bhagavad Gītā Read chapter Read first chapter

2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

10. The Bhagavad Gītā as an Antidote to Duality: A Challenge to the Orthodoxy of Current Decisions Theory

Authors : K. Sankaran, C. K. Manjunath

Published in: Managing by the Bhagavad Gītā

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter revisits decision-making theory and challenges four major premises. These premises have been identified by James March as the bedrock of decision sciences. Currently these four premises are elucidated as dialectics in the extant literature. This chapter suggests that according to the Bhagavad Gītā the current “closure” to the four premises achieved in the literature would be inadequate to satisfy the dharmic calling of all the parties involved in decision making situations. Drawing from the Bhagavad Gītā we challenge the four divisive dialectics and provide a unitive closure to them. This is achievable by decision makers through a process of transcendence while not rejecting the importance of rooting decisions in the phenomenal plane.

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Where we have referred to the Gītā followed by numbers, the first number refers to the Chapter and the second to the Stanza within the said chapter. Translation by Easwaran Easwaran (1985) is used for this purpose unless otherwise specified.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Bhagavad Gītā as an Antidote to Duality: A Challenge to the Orthodoxy of Current Decisions Theory
Authors
K. Sankaran
C. K. Manjunath
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Managing by the Bhagavad Gītā

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-99610-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-99611-0

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99611-0_10

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