Colonial Mindset and Servitude
[ Published on swarjyamag Aug 26, 2022] Let me recollect the question we agreed upon: how does the combined phrase (colonial mindset and servitude) make sense within the framework of…
Read moreExperience and truth
Of course, you can use Kant (or anyone other philosopher of your liking) to talk about what experience is. But if you use these thinkers (of the last 1000 years…
Read moreHow to understand corruption?
[Transcript appeared in pp 206-8 “Classical Indian Thought and the English Language” edited by Mullick, et al] Let us take the word ‘duty’ for the moment. Conflict in duties does…
Read moreDescriptions about the world vs. Manuals for action
It is broadly accepted that one of the most important functions of language is to describe the world outside it. Could it be the case that when it comes to…
Read moreTruth, belief, intentionality, eudaimonia, ought
I want to respond to three of your points Claus. First you are not talking only about the Greeks and the Romans because all the problems arising with respect to…
Read moreNarratives vs Theories
The question requires deeper handling so you will forgive me for the brevity of my response but you will get some idea of where I stand. Regarding the first question…
Read moreA priori assumptions
I am going to ask for a clarification on a question which I find very troubling. Let me first read how you have formulated the problem from the text: Sanskrit…
Read moreSolving vs dissolving problems
In the examples you refer to, you touch on an approach to situations and problems that are Indian (in the sense of culture) contrasted to which stands another culture’s way…
Read moreagyana: existence or absence
I I face some difficulties in giving a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to your question because I am not sure how to understand ‘Samsara’, ‘Jnana’ and its Sanskrit negation ‘Ajnana’,…
Read moreMoral luck and gyanodaya
I I think that the multiple routes that exist in the Indian culture and those that individuals follow are on par with each other. From within any one of these,…
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