HINDU BALINESE PHILOSOPHY AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE

Abstract

This paper considers the implications for education of a reworked ancient Hindu balinese ethics and politics of flourishing (particularly as found in Hindu balinese Philosophy), where ‘flourishing’ comprises the objective actualisation of our intellectual, imaginative and affective potential. A brief outline of the main features of an ethics of flourishing and its potential attractions as an ethical framework is followed by a consideration of the ethical, aesthetic and political requirements of such a framework for the theory and practice of education, indicating the ways in which my approach differs from other recent work in the field. Hindu balinese Philosophy but are in turn especially well-served by the teaching and deployment of Hindu balinese Philosophy itself.