Which facts are relevant? Hipkapi and Hinduism
1. Many facts are interconnected within a culture. (The same applies to Nature too.) Some hypothesis or another notices some of these facts as facts, and it is able to…
Read moreIs Bible an explanatorily intelligle account of Cosmos and of itself?
When a religion claims that it is the word of God and that the word is unconditionally true; and that, further, the word is about the Cosmos: everything that was,…
Read moreWhy the question about the origin of religion is ill-formulated?
1. Are there accounts about the origin of religion? Yes, there are at least two kinds. One kind tries to localise the origin of religion in human beings and the…
Read moreDo practices need rational justifications?
If we understand the word ‘tradition’ to mean ‘a set of practices’, then the question is this: why continue a set of practices? When someone ‘justifies’ (I will soon explain…
Read moreSecularized Christian belief: worldview is a cultural universal
Lets become clear about the nature of my claims about worldviews. 1. The word carries multiple meanings. It has partly to do with the multiple meanings of the component words:…
Read moreSecularization and world views
To begin with the question raised in `The Heathen in his blindness: Asia, the West and the dynamic of religion’: Do all cultures, peoples, and individuals need a world view…
Read moreIs enlightenment learnable?
Is enlightenment learnable? (In a less loaded formulation: Can all people be happy?) My answer is an unequivocal ‘yes’. Before we go further, we need to be clear what exactly…
Read moreFoundationalism and Virtuous Circularity
You do not want to call our natural sciences as ‘knowledge’. I do not even mind that. (For instance, you might want to define ‘knowledge’ as ‘true and justified belief’.…
Read moreCriticism: you are a hindutvavaadin!
Consider the following possibility: let us assume that in some of my writings, I reach the same conclusion as some or another ideologue from Hindutva. (Of course, neither Steve Farmer…
Read moreVivekananda and Caste Discrimination: theory-ladenness
1. You ask whether or not it was ‘factual’ that a ‘paraiah’ was not allowed on the same street as a Nair or a Brahmin. The evidence we have says…
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