African culture, tribes
One of the most common characteristics of the African culture is supposed to be its tribal nature. You could begin a study of ‘how’ European intellectuals came to this characterization.…
Read moreOught one to be generous?
There is ethics in India, but it is not normative ethics. It is a non-normative ethics. To get you going, consider acts like ‘generosity’, ‘kindness’, ‘bravery’, ‘friendliness’ and such like.…
Read moreIndian way of Westernization
1. How the Indians learn whatever they learn will be in accordance with their ways of going-about in the world. That is to say, the configuration of learning determines how…
Read moreIntentional and Causal explanations
The first question: could we have EIA of units smaller than the Cosmos? An explanatorily intelligible account of any object, whatever that object is, is one where causal (say) and…
Read moreApaurusheya, shruti and revelation: theoretical dispute
The problem about translating ‘sruti’ is not as easy as it has been made out to be. Is it possible to translate it as ‘revelation’ or even as ‘divine revelation’?…
Read moreWhy Heathens are blind to religion?
Of course, the concept of explanatorily intelligible account is not easy to grasp: if it were, the ‘heathens’ would not be blind to the existence of religion. However, that does…
Read moreIntelligibility: Religion, Belief, Meaning
I Let me begin by clarifying what the notion of intelligibility says. 1. The first thing to keep in mind is that Religion makes (i.e. transforms, renders, or any such…
Read moreWhy people resist to think critically?
I have also come across expressions of similar thoughts and feelings both in India and in Europe and the United States. However, I think there are multiple grounds that generate…
Read moreIs the hypothesis about colonial consciousness ad hoc?
1. I have come to accept that the most interesting facts that a theory explains are those of the theory itself. Furthermore, a ‘theory’, which collects all kinds of facts…
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