04-22-2007, 09:23 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-SwamyG+Apr 22 2007, 08:52 PM-->QUOTE(SwamyG @ Apr 22 2007, 08:52 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-sengotuvel+Apr 22 2007, 08:42 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sengotuvel @ Apr 22 2007, 08:42 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->1) The Socratic method of asking questions and finding answers.
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Well we have our share, if not more than the Greeks, of people who questioned and sought answers. <b>The realm might have been different</b>.
The Upanishads are filled with episodes of people asking questions and finding out answers. Hindus definitely had a hoary past of that tradition too.
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True,
But we asked different questions.
Was that pure chance? Or was it that we already had a highly developed and civilized society that was not struggling with the things European society was struggling with when they asked their questions.
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Well we have our share, if not more than the Greeks, of people who questioned and sought answers. <b>The realm might have been different</b>.
The Upanishads are filled with episodes of people asking questions and finding out answers. Hindus definitely had a hoary past of that tradition too.
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True,
But we asked different questions.
Was that pure chance? Or was it that we already had a highly developed and civilized society that was not struggling with the things European society was struggling with when they asked their questions.