Assaig sobre l'axiologia hindú: els quatre purusârthes. La resposta hindú a la qüestió kantiana sobre què podem esperar de la vida

Identifier:  TDX:915

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX915

Authors:  Duch Plana, Josep Maria

Abstract:
The author presents a hypothesis in which in a cross-disciplinary manner (philosophy, anthropology, sociology, mythology, psychology…), he speaks, following the approach of Max Scheler and Max Weber, about the relationship between the four major axiological values of the Hindu culture (the purusârthas) and the social structure. These values are dharma (ethics), artha (economy), kâmâ (pleasure) and moksha (spiritual freedom or liberation) well known from the Gupta period, from IV to VI CE. They are the core essence and essentialism of the eternal India –the sanâtana dharma-, growing from the roots of the Vedic period and from the early substrate before the Aryan colonization. We study too the cultural exchange between India and the West in XIX and XX centuries following the colonial and post colonial constructs from the point of view of the ‘pizza effect’. From the Max Müller’s theories to the neohinduism build by Swami Vivekânanda, the theosophy of Helena Blavatsky and Annie Besant and the majestic figure of Mahâtma Gandhi. This work will help us to have a better understanding of India. Their study must allow us to confirm the hypothesis that the structuring spirit of the four values lies behind the deepest singularities of the social and historical patterns and structures of the classical Hindu civilization.