Concept
Hinduism
Overview
religion widely practiced in the Indian subcontinent
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Before Moses, none of the theocratic legislators had thought it well to present for the adoration of the people, the Supreme God, unique and uncreated in His unfathomable universality. The Indian Brahmans, who can be considered as the living types of all the sages and of all the pontiffs of the world, never permit themselves, even in this day when their great age has effaced the traces of their ancient science, to…
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, The golden verses of Pythagoras
Close in meaning to Hinduism; the term itself is not named.
A converse instance is presented in transfer from public to private domain of religious rites and beliefs. As long as the prevailing mentality thought that the consequences of piety and irreligion affected the entire community, religion was of necessity a public affair. Scrupulous adherence to the customary cult was of the highest political import. Gods were tribal ancestors or founders of the community. They…
John Dewey, The public and its problems
Close in meaning to Hinduism; the term itself is not named.
On the whole, there seems little room for doubting that, in common with the idea of a god become man, or Avatar,[8] it has an Asiatic origin, and probably came to Judaea by way of Egypt; so that Christianity would be a secondary reflection of the primordial light that shone in India, which, falling first on Egypt, was unhappily refracted from its ruins upon Jewish soil. An apt symbol of the insensibility of…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
The author is tied to Hinduism in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Hinduism
- Madhvacharya
- Mircea Eliade
- James Mill
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Simone Weil
- Adi Shankara
- Dharmakirti
- Max Weber
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Netherlands
- Christopher Hitchens
- Sri Aurobindo
- Sam Harris
- Sanskrit
- Julius Evola
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Anekantavada
- Vallabha
- Tattvartha Sutra
- Umaswati
- Buddhism
- The Buddha
- Gaudapada
- Carl Jung
Related ideas
- Parvati
- Lakshmi
- Durga
- Hanuman
- Ṛta
- Avatar
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Bhagavata Purana
- Deva (Hinduism)
- Dvaita Vedanta
- Gaudiya Vaishnavism
- Fiji
- Persian language
- Pashupata Shaivism
- Afterlife
- Ishvara
- Manusmriti
- Indology
- Hindi
- Hindus
- History of India
- Carvaka
- Animism
- Kama
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Acosmism.