04-22-2007, 08:52 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-sengotuvel+Apr 22 2007, 08:42 PM-->QUOTE(sengotuvel @ Apr 22 2007, 08:42 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->1) The Socratic method of asking questions and finding answers.
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Well we have our share, if not more than the Greeks, of people who questioned and sought answers. <b>The realm might have been different</b>.
The Upanishads are filled with episodes of people asking questions and finding out answers. Hindus definitely had a hoary past of that tradition too.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->2) The Christian belief of the superiority of man over all of nature, requiring that the questions that man asked were aimed at the "conquer" of nature rather than any attempt at coexisting with nature.
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Maybe it is the realm that I talked above. But if what you say is true, then there should have been no medicinal discoveries in India. We have a rich heritage there too - Ayurveda, Siddha etc.
Or can we restate your point as Hindus are inward looking, seeking to improve themselves at every possible opportunity; and hence there was not the <b>critical</b> necessity to beat nature?
Maybe the answer is one page, if not a chapter, in the annals of Hindu narrative.
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Well we have our share, if not more than the Greeks, of people who questioned and sought answers. <b>The realm might have been different</b>.
The Upanishads are filled with episodes of people asking questions and finding out answers. Hindus definitely had a hoary past of that tradition too.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->2) The Christian belief of the superiority of man over all of nature, requiring that the questions that man asked were aimed at the "conquer" of nature rather than any attempt at coexisting with nature.
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Maybe it is the realm that I talked above. But if what you say is true, then there should have been no medicinal discoveries in India. We have a rich heritage there too - Ayurveda, Siddha etc.
Or can we restate your point as Hindus are inward looking, seeking to improve themselves at every possible opportunity; and hence there was not the <b>critical</b> necessity to beat nature?
Maybe the answer is one page, if not a chapter, in the annals of Hindu narrative.