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0 pointsrramadass1y ago0 comments

There is no intrinsic "overall hierarchy" but merely a "a posteriori" appearance of one.

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There is no thing in itself here either to which one might ascribe a particular quality. There is a history of violence expressed through the language itself; I am doing my analysis immanently. When I say hierarchy I don't mean hierarchy outside the text.

rramadassOP1y ago

Not sure what you are trying to say here. My point was that the fact that most Hindu Philosophy today is studied via the Sanskrit language does not mean all the philosophies/concepts/ideas originated in that medium and by extension in the culture that gave birth to it. It is from an amalgamation of various cultures and their languages from the Indian Subcontinent which has been expressed through Sanskrit texts. One can see this in the evolution of the language itself from Vedic to Classical Sanskrit and influences from Prakrit and Dravidian languages.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit for details.

Also see Classical Languages of India here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India

DiscourseFan1y ago

This is all given, however, through Sanskrit, so you are proving to me that the language itself shows the hierarchal dominance that the culture imposed, and that hierarchal dominance shows itself in the philosophy.

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rramadassOP1y ago

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit for details.

Also see Classical Languages of India here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India

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