James' Varieties

[Guest guest]

Adiji wrote:

However to study the vedas and upanishads in depth and in

detail one needs greater sensitivity to time honored faiths rooted in

indigenous culture ... and indigenuous forms of knowledge .

 

Namaste Adiji,

You have misunderstood the point I was making.

Speed reading doesn't work for my productions. I was deducing what

James' attitude to Advaita would be from his stated general principles of

meaningfullness and his given examples of meaninglessness.

 

Let me give a further example of what I mean. Marx said religion was the

opium of the people. What would be his attitude to Scientology one might

wonder. By deduction from his

general principle he would hold that it was expensive opium. No buts, no

maybes, if there is a general principle and the particular instance falls

under it then what applies to the general applies to the particular. To

say that Marx had no experience of Scientology because it was after his

time is to miss the point.

 

Best Wishes,

Michael.