Critique of the West in Indic literature and society

[l.m.fosse at easteur-orient.uio.no]

>Western thought, like Indian thought is of course a self-contained
>and growing set of systems, and it would be perhaps better to
>criticize individual systems of the West, many of which involve
>presuppositions which are not admitted as obvious by Indians.
>
>One point, however, which is widely presented as characteristic
>of the West, and as the foundation of the Western conception of
>progress, is the concept of domination of nature,
>which, from an Indian standpoint, is quite arbitrary. For instance,
>it is odd to interpret technology as a means to counteract the
>natural order of things, since it makes use of nothing but
>the laws of Physics, which are, of course, more complex than
>those obvious to common sense.
>
>
>                                Satyanad Kichenassamy

Thank you for this comment. These are interesting points!

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse



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