[Y-Indology] De-Essentializing the 'Eastern Wisdom'.

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INDOLOGY, "Rajiv Malhotra" <rajiv.malhotra@a...> wrote:

 

>Nietzsche said it as follows:

"The

> reputation, name, and appearance, the usual measure and weight of a

thing,

> what it counts for -- originally almost always wrong and arbitrary

-- grows

> from generation unto generation, merely because people believe in

it, until

> it gradually grows to be a part of the thing and turns into its

very

body.

> What at first was appearance becomes in the end, almost invariably,

the

> essence and is effective as such."

>

 

I wonder if you, or other people trying to tell Western scholars

what they should or should not research/teach (futile task, by the

way), ever apllied the above Nietzsche quote to the stuff you'd

like to be tought in Western Universities?

 

Best regards, Dmitri.