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  1. Notthedarkweb

    Why did God create us

    Just a correction. The Nyayaikas generally have multiple arguments for the existence of a creator god separate from the world (since they are ontological pluralists about reality i.e. contra Hindu monists, they believe that there are multiple types of basic and real entities in the world.)...
  2. Notthedarkweb

    Why did God create us

    The great Franciscan thinker Bonaventure has a very Aristotlean answer to this that also solves the question of how exactly trinitarian relationship can occur. He argues that the Godhead is equivalent to the transcendental of love (a common Medieval Christian scholastic concept encoding a...
  3. Notthedarkweb

    Killing insects

    Yeah, no, you are absolutely right from an Advaitin perspective.But vernacular Hinduism is influenced by other sources than that (like, as you yourself show, a lot of Hindus are non-vegetarians, and it beggars belief that no one, not even the fertile Bengali philosophical scene, would have...
  4. Notthedarkweb

    Killing insects

    Well, I am not really interested in making normative claims about whether or not killing animals is bad (I believe it is, but for philosophical reasons quite orthogonal to this), but once again, Gangesa explicitly doesnt include not following dharma as a necessary condition for sinful violence...
  5. Notthedarkweb

    Hi! I'm back! Ask me about Indian philosophy, German idealism or post-Rawls political philosophy.

    Hi! I'm back! Ask me about Indian philosophy, German idealism or post-Rawls political philosophy.
  6. Notthedarkweb

    Killing insects

    Yeah, I wanted to say that it really depends on whether or not you do a buy-in into a very specific Advaitin Vedantic conception of what violence is supposed to be. Gangesa in his Tattvachintamani makes it explicit in his answer to the Prabhakara objector: (E211-219) Objection: Killing is...
  7. Notthedarkweb

    Is Brahman unchanging?

    I think, despite your request for an Advaita view, it's fruitful to look a bit outside the Sankara tradition at other philosophical constructions of what the brahman is supposed to look like, if only to understand what exactly the Advaitins were arguing against. So I'm picking a position that...
  8. Notthedarkweb

    What is an authentic Christian?

    Seems like a fairly quixotic question that's beholden by a very decisionistic theology reminiscent to me of Kierkegaard, honestly. The problem with this is that authentic Christianity is only determinable from a God's eye view of election and sanctifying grace, which is obviously unavailable to...
  9. Notthedarkweb

    Western Hinduisms

    I mean, I think the general problem with this approach is a disconnect from the actual philosophical claims made by Hindu philosophers and theologians in favour of a very nebulous Neo-Vedantin conception of how the faith is supposed to work, which emphatically isn't how it is intended. Even...
  10. Notthedarkweb

    Westernsplaining the scriptures.

    Also, the results of the studies don't refute the Hypothesis, but instead states that pastoral agriculture in the IVC existed prior to the onset of the migrations. To quote: “The population has no detectable ancestry from Steppe pastoralists or from Anatolian and Iranian farmers, suggesting...
  11. Notthedarkweb

    Westernsplaining the scriptures.

    So one paper and a motif that has existed in many cultures over a long time refute the Kugan hypothesis? That...doesn't seem like it fulfills the burden of proof
  12. Notthedarkweb

    Westernsplaining the scriptures.

    I am not aware of any such except from fringe revisionists with not academic credo. The Kurgan hypothesis remains valid.
  13. Notthedarkweb

    Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika : An introduction

    Again, a fairly controversial theory. The Nyaya Sutras definitely makes reference to a higher deity, and most people have translated it to mean "God" considering the sotereological nature of Ishvara in Nyaya, although a minority believes it might not have been God. So, yeah, not so sure about that.
  14. Notthedarkweb

    Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika : An introduction

    This is fairly controversial actually. Nyaya definitely developed a fair amount of time after Vaiesheshika and was heavily influenced by Buddhism (especially in metaphysics), so we can't really say what they believed in early on. Especially considering the first extant commentary on the Nyaya...
  15. Notthedarkweb

    The last post is the WINNER!

    If you had won, it would be true. But since you haven't, well...
  16. Notthedarkweb

    The last post is the WINNER!

    Those who preach should follow too
  17. Notthedarkweb

    The last post is the WINNER!

    Can you repeat that? Can't hear it over my win
  18. Notthedarkweb

    The last post is the WINNER!

    I.win.again.
  19. Notthedarkweb

    Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika : An introduction

    Yeah, but they go hand in hand in a lot of places so I had to include them to a certain degree.
  20. Notthedarkweb

    The last post is the WINNER!

    Agreed. Me winning must be met with a sense of humour by LOSERS.
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