Monday, August 4, 2014

A Brief Interview on Hindu Polycentrism

Here's an interesting interview on The Philosopher's Stone blog touching on several key ideas in Hindu thought.
Jonardon Ganeri: Taking Christianity as the exemplar of religion skews philosophical discussion towards attempts to solve, resolve or dissolve difficult philosophical puzzles inherent in monotheism: problems about God’s powers, goodness and knowledge; attempts to provide rational arguments for God’s existence; the problem of evil; and so on. Hindu philosophers have traditionally been far more interested in a quite different array of problems, especially questions about the nature of religious knowledge and religious language, initially arising from their concerns with the Veda as a sacred eternal text and as a source of ritual and moral law.
Here's the link: What Would Krishna Do? Or Shiva? Or Vishnu?



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