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established in Europe and America. Finally, the rise of sociology and cultural
anthropology in the first quarter of this century, has inspired new perspectives.
All these experiments were the prize because respon-dian primarily to the problems
inherent in European culture. While the various access methods used by Western scholars
could not always reveal the intrinsic values of spirituality hindu, why not give less help
and little by little, the co-Menz India to assert its presence in the European consciousness.
It is true that for a long time, this presence is revealed particularly in comparison
gramdticas scanty, timidly, India made their appearance in histories of philosophy, where
the oscillating position laba, according to the fashion of the day, between the alemdn
idealism and "mint-ability pre-logic" when the interest in sociology was imposed, there
were long epilogue on the caste system. But all these attitudes are explained by taking
into account the horizons of modern Western culture. When a culture included among its
capital problemus the explanation of a language law or a social struc-turing, invoking to
India to resolve this etymology or illustrate such a stage of social evolution, did not mean
to diminish India, was well mds assurances of respect and admiration. Moreover, the
forms of access were not bad in itself, they were just too individual, and your opportunity
to unveil the spiritual content of a large and complex intellectualism was limited, because
of that, to the same extent. Fortunately, the methods are perfect and the failures of the
past is not lost: soon learned to not renew the mistakes of predecessors. Simply measure
the progress of the studies of Indo-European mythology, from Max Muller, po-der to
judge the gains that draw a George Dumézil knew, so no-regret of comparative philology,
but also of sociology, of history of religions and ethnology to give a precise and infinitely
mds mds fruitful, major categories of the mythical Indo-European thought.
Everything leads us to believe that at the current time becomes possible mds exact
knowledge of Hindu thought. India has entered the circuit of History and the European
spirit, rightly or wrongly, is inclined to take seriously mds philosophies present people in
history. Moreover, especially after the last generation philosophical, std European spirit
being taken on an increasingly intense mds defined with respect to issues of temporality
and historicity. During mds of a cen-tury, the better part of the European scientific and
philosophical effort was devoted to andlisis of the factors "condition" to be human hand
could be demonstrated to what extent cudnto and std man conditioned by his physiology,
by their heredity, their social, cultural ideology involved, by his subconscious, and, above
all, by history, by its historical moment and by their own uniqueness personal history.
This latest discovery of Western thought, namely that man is essentially an temporal and
historical, that is not, nor can it stop being "a product of the history, philosophy still
dominates Europe. Some philosophical reach the conclusion that the only task worthy
and valuable offered to man, is free and fully assume this temporality and historicity this
case any choice would be equivalent to an escape toward the abstract and untrue and
would pay the sterility and death, which inexorably punished in the treason made history.
Not for us to discuss these arguments. Senalonos however, that the problems that excite
the European consciousness prepare pupils to better understand the Indian spiritualism:
mds Moreover, the in-cite to use for his own philosophical work, an ancient Indian
experience. To explain: it is the human condition which constitutes the subject of recent
mds European philosophy, especially human temporality, the temporality is what makes
possible all other "constraints" and that, ultimately, makes man a being "conditioned", a
series of vague and evanescent "conditions". However, this problem of "conditioning" of