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Acquiesce to Righteousness

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understanding of a situation, and the "creative insights" necessary <strong>to</strong> apply virtues "with<br />

no loss of sight of the <strong>to</strong>tal good. Yi represents this ideal of <strong>to</strong>tality as well as a decisiongenerating<br />

ability <strong>to</strong> apply a virtue properly and appropriately in a situation."<br />

In application, yi is a "complex principle" which includes:<br />

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skill in crafting actions which have moral fitness according <strong>to</strong> a given concrete<br />

situation<br />

the wise recognition of such fitness<br />

the intrinsic satisfaction that comes from that recognition.<br />

Dharmic Traditions<br />

Dharma is a key concept with multiple meanings. There might not be a single-word<br />

translation for dharma in Western languages. Dharma धर्म can be translated as<br />

righteousness, religion, faith, duty, law, and virtue. Connotations of dharma include<br />

rightness, good, natural, morality, righteousness, and virtue. It means moral, right, just,<br />

balanced, or natural etc. In common parlance, dharma means ‘right way of living’ and<br />

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