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A lot of discussion about Constitution and Smriti in the last two days.
Obviously, it is a Category Mistake to compare the two, technically.
Yet, I am sympathetic of people indulging in this comparison. This thread is to explain why.
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A lot of discussion about Constitution and Smriti in the last two days.
Obviously, it is a Category Mistake to compare the two, technically.
Yet, I am sympathetic of people indulging in this comparison. This thread is to explain why.
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Let us begin by understanding the difference between the two. That will also help us to understand why the Confusion.
1. Smriti-s are an elucidation of the Purushartha perspective. It is a Dharma-Artha-Kama-Moksha enterprise. For the individual, the community and the State.
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1. Smriti-s are an elucidation of the Purushartha perspective. It is a Dharma-Artha-Kama-Moksha enterprise. For the individual, the community and the State.
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The Constitution is merely the Philosophy of the Modern State & a Book of Law based on that. Minimally a philosophy, maximally Law and adequately an institutional framework for the two.
It is an administrative Contract between the State & the Society, rather the individual.
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It is an administrative Contract between the State & the Society, rather the individual.
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