A Chariot Between Two Armies: A Perfectionist Reading of The BhagavadgīTā

Abstract

This article provides a reading of the Gītā in terms of a dimension of moral thinking that can be understood to cut across the more familiar consequentialist and deontological positions typically invoked when attempting to interpret the text's ethical significance—namely that developed by Stanley Cavell, which he calls "Emersonian Moral Perfectionism."