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

verfasst von : K. Sankaran, C. K. Manjunath

Erschienen in: Managing by the Bhagavad Gītā

Verlag: 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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Metadaten
Titel
The Bhagavad Gītā as an Antidote to Duality: A Challenge to the Orthodoxy of Current Decisions Theory
verfasst von
K. Sankaran
C. K. Manjunath
Copyright-Jahr
2019
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99611-0_10

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