Rajesh,
The homogenizing tendency of the abrahamics resulted not only in a spiritual monotheism with all its attendant terrorisms but it also affected the particular histories of their languages. notice the radical impulse for homogeneic speech patterns in america and compare that to india where diversity is preserved at all levels by default. this was also effectively eluded to in Kalavai Venkat's conclusion regarding caste in his essay - a Pluralist's Encounter... Balagangadhara says that the Abrahamic Homogeneizing tendency is a result of normative ethics, which is a subset of the prevalent and endemic ethics of Asia. I do not think that this normative ethics was originated in a lone Bethelehem in Palestine. Rather, we should postulate a normative zone in the mediterranean of which Hammurabi, greeks, Romans, et al, partook to form their law governed cultures. This would solve Balagangadhara's dilemma regarding the presence of normative ethics in the pagan greeks. For some reason, it crystallized first in the Jews. At all times there is a specifically Indian implulse driving each further mutation in the normative ethics-- bginning with the Upanishidic influence of the mittanis on Egypt, resulting in judaism; Buddhist input into egypt resulting in christianity... Hindu influence on Arabia resulting in the But (Buddha) Shikans; and Finally the Buddhist influence imported by the Schopenhauers resulting in MArxism.
I do not thnk anyone can deny the truth of Nichol's analysis placing the center to the east of the Caspian and what Talageri does with her analysis. Frawley ties it all together with the proper time depths.
The homogenizing tendency of the abrahamics resulted not only in a spiritual monotheism with all its attendant terrorisms but it also affected the particular histories of their languages. notice the radical impulse for homogeneic speech patterns in america and compare that to india where diversity is preserved at all levels by default. this was also effectively eluded to in Kalavai Venkat's conclusion regarding caste in his essay - a Pluralist's Encounter... Balagangadhara says that the Abrahamic Homogeneizing tendency is a result of normative ethics, which is a subset of the prevalent and endemic ethics of Asia. I do not think that this normative ethics was originated in a lone Bethelehem in Palestine. Rather, we should postulate a normative zone in the mediterranean of which Hammurabi, greeks, Romans, et al, partook to form their law governed cultures. This would solve Balagangadhara's dilemma regarding the presence of normative ethics in the pagan greeks. For some reason, it crystallized first in the Jews. At all times there is a specifically Indian implulse driving each further mutation in the normative ethics-- bginning with the Upanishidic influence of the mittanis on Egypt, resulting in judaism; Buddhist input into egypt resulting in christianity... Hindu influence on Arabia resulting in the But (Buddha) Shikans; and Finally the Buddhist influence imported by the Schopenhauers resulting in MArxism.
I do not thnk anyone can deny the truth of Nichol's analysis placing the center to the east of the Caspian and what Talageri does with her analysis. Frawley ties it all together with the proper time depths.