![]() ![]() They survive side by side with intense religious beliefs and deeply respectful faith and devotion. ![]() A basic doubt concerns the very creation of the world: did someone make it, was it a spontaneous emergence, and is there a God who knows what really happened? As is discussed in Essay 1, the Rigveda goes on to express radical doubts on these issues: ‘Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it? Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation? … perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not – the one who looks down on it, in the highest heaven, only he knows – or perhaps he does not know.’ These doubts from the second millennium BCE would recur again and again in India’s long argumentative history, along with a great many other questions about epistemology and ethics (as is discussed in Essay 1). « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 next » sort by « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 next » Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. ![]() shelved 120,768 times Showing 30 distinct works.“The Vedas may be full of hymns and religious invocations, but they also tell stories, speculate about the world and – true to the argumentative propensity already in view – ask difficult questions. Books by Amartya Sen (Author of The Argumentative Indian) Books by Amartya Sen Amartya Sen Average rating 4.01 ![]()
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