https://www.adluri.org/parmenides-plato-and-mortal-philosophy daily 0.75 2022-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620d35302afbcc363f0149c2/f8a9a97a-de5a-4821-9e87-16b361abcb7e/Parmenides-Plato-and-Mortal-Philosophy-197x300.jpg Parmenides, Plato and Mortal Philosophy In a new interpretation of Parmenides’ philosophical poem On Nature, Vishwa Adluri considers Parmenides as a thinker of mortal singularity, a thinker who is concerned with the fate of irreducibly unique individuals. Adluri argues that the tripartite division of Parmenides’ poem allows the thinker to brilliantly hold together the paradox of speaking about being in time and articulates a tragic knowing: mortals may aspire to the transcendence of metaphysics, but are inescapably returned to their mortal condition. Hence, Parmenides’ poem articulates a “tragic return”, i.e., a turn away from metaphysics to the community of mortals. In this interpretation, Parmenides’ philosophy resonates with post-metaphysical and contemporary thought. The themes of human finitude, mortality, love, and singularity echo in thinkers such as Arendt, and Schürmann as well. Parmenides, Plato and Mortal Philosophy also includes a complete new translation of ‘On Nature’ and a substantial overview and bibliography of contemporary scholarship on Parmenides. https://www.adluri.org/modernity-and-plato daily 0.75 2022-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620d35302afbcc363f0149c2/f856973e-8d42-4c9f-b596-c56624792bb0/Modernity-Plato_Final-Cover-231x300.jpg Modernity and Plato Hailed upon its publication in German as “one of the most important philosophy books of the past few years,” Arbogast Schmitt’s Modernity and Plato undertakes a critical reflection on the history of the concept of rationality. Contrary to modernity’s claim that it “discovered” self-reflective thought through the turn to the individual in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Schmitt demonstrates that modernity did not discover rationality: it merely transformed the ancient concept. In so doing, it turned away from the Platonic and Aristotelian understanding of rationality as based upon the principle of non-contradiction to a Stoic conception based upon the alleged self-evidence of empirical objects. 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In a series of position pieces and essays written over a span of 30 years, Alf Hiltebeitel, Columbian Professor of Religion, History, and Human Sciences at The George Washington University, articulates a compelling new approach to the epic: as a literary work of fundamental theological and philosophical significance rich in metaphor and meaning. In this three-part volume, the editors gather some of Hiltebeitel’s seminal writings on the epic along with new pieces written especially for the volume. https://www.adluri.org/when-the-goddess-was-a-woman daily 0.75 2022-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620d35302afbcc363f0149c2/0eb2ea8a-7018-4936-8432-c83438d8279d/When+The+Goddess+Was+A+Woman.jpg When the Goddess was a Woman Explicitly acknowledging its status as a strī-śūdra-veda (a Veda for women and the downtrodden), the Mahābhārata articulates a promise to bring knowledge of right conduct, fundamental ethical, philosophical, and soteriological teachings, and its own grand narrative to all classes of people and all beings. Hiltebeitel shows how the Mahābhārata has more than lived up to this promise at least on the ground in Indian folk traditions. In this three-part volume, he journeys over the overlapping terrains of the south Indian cults of Draupadī (part I) and Kūttāṇṭavar (part II), to explore how the Mahābhārata continues to be such a vital source of meaning, and, in part III, then connects this vital tradition to wider reflections on prehistory, sacrifice, myth, oral epic, and modern theatre. https://www.adluri.org/philosophy-and-salvation-in-greek-religion daily 0.75 2022-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/620d35302afbcc363f0149c2/2283e5cd-6d4b-4201-a906-4177ac4611ed/9783110276350_Cover_Adluri-223x300.jpg Philosophy And Salvation in Greek Religion Ever since Vlastos’ “Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought,” scholars have known that a consideration of ancient philosophy without attention to its theological, cosmological and soteriological dimensions remains onesided. Yet, philosophers continue to discuss thinkers such as Parmenides and Plato without knowledge of their debt to the archaic religious traditions. Perhaps our own religious prejudices allow us to see only a “polis religion” in Greek religion, while our modern philosophical openness and emphasis on reason induce us to rehabilitate ancient philosophy by what we consider the highest standard of knowledge: proper argumentation. Yet, it is possible to see ancient philosophy as operating according to a different system of meaning, a different “logic.” Such a different sense of logic operates in myth and other narratives, where the argument is neither completely illogical nor rational in the positivist sense. The articles in this volume undertake a critical engagement with this unspoken legacy of Greek religion. 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Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee show how, in contrast to the Indologists’ unscientific theories, V. S. Sukthankar assimilated the principles of neo-Lachmannian textual criticism to defend the transmitted text and its traditional reception as a work of law, philosophy and salvation. The authors demonstrate why, after the edition’s completion, no justification exists for claiming that an earlier heroic epic existed, that the Brahmans redacted the heroic epic to produce the Mahābhārata or that they interpolated “sectarian” gods such as Vis.n.u and Śiva into the work. By demonstrating how the Indologists committed technical errors, cited flawed and biased scholarship and used circular argumentation to validate their racist and anti-Semitic theories, Philology and Criticism frees readers to approach the Mahābhārata as “the principal monument of bhakti” (Madeleine Biardeau). 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