04-22-2007, 08:09 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Hauma Hamiddha+Apr 22 2007, 10:54 AM-->QUOTE(Hauma Hamiddha @ Apr 22 2007, 10:54 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Is there a need for every human action to have 1) a rational basis? 2) a scientific basis?
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Rational to a great degree.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->....justify scientific basis for religious performance. This is common amongst modern Hindus. But we really need to sit back and ask the above questions. .........We should also explore the possibility of purely naturalistic explanations of a non-Skinnerian type. While Hindu science definitely arose out of the Hindu religion, we need not try to see scientific justification for all and sundry.Â
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Well said. That is the point I was trying to make. By rationalizing the past actions we lose the sight of fact - what actually happened. It is possible some actions had darn good reasons. We pass down traditions down the generations because it is valuable in some ways (we are rational). Dilution occurs when humans think some parts of it are irrational and are willing to let them go.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Though many scientists of the Abrahmistic cultures imagine that their religious constructs favored the emergence of science, the case which can be made for Hindu-s is much stronger than theirs.
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Agreed. So what were the circumstances that led the Europeans to make lots of scientific advancements while the Indians and Chinese were left to catch up. They say necessity is the mother of invention. Were there no necessities in our pre-Colonialistic days that did not warrant us say from inventing the Steam Engine?
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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> . The Admins must have chopped my reply to the other thread and start a "new narrative" here.
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Rational to a great degree.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->....justify scientific basis for religious performance. This is common amongst modern Hindus. But we really need to sit back and ask the above questions. .........We should also explore the possibility of purely naturalistic explanations of a non-Skinnerian type. While Hindu science definitely arose out of the Hindu religion, we need not try to see scientific justification for all and sundry.Â
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Well said. That is the point I was trying to make. By rationalizing the past actions we lose the sight of fact - what actually happened. It is possible some actions had darn good reasons. We pass down traditions down the generations because it is valuable in some ways (we are rational). Dilution occurs when humans think some parts of it are irrational and are willing to let them go.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Though many scientists of the Abrahmistic cultures imagine that their religious constructs favored the emergence of science, the case which can be made for Hindu-s is much stronger than theirs.
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Agreed. So what were the circumstances that led the Europeans to make lots of scientific advancements while the Indians and Chinese were left to catch up. They say necessity is the mother of invention. Were there no necessities in our pre-Colonialistic days that did not warrant us say from inventing the Steam Engine?
ps: By the way somebody moved my cheese <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> . The Admins must have chopped my reply to the other thread and start a "new narrative" here.