PHL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pantheism, Vishishtadvaita, Mahatma Gandhi
6 Nov 2017
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Lecture, reading/chapter/novel/article during class, power point, movies (if need to collect info. ) July 6: first man, like adam, as it were, who heard the revelation of god. Various creatures: symbolically, this means the totality of the. 1. 9 cosmos: from within his own body, him = within, e. g. Spider and the web analogy: waters symbolizes feminine, waters symbolizes goddess/devi, symbolizes god and goddess, human procreation, issue: waters are within ishvara, devi (goddess) is within ishvara, ishvara extends out to infinity, but within. Ishvara the waters become the cosmos, within which life is created: he places his seed into the waters/the female. Efficient cause, and ishvara is the material cause (unlike genesis ch. Creates by his word or preexistent matter) . Analogy: spider is material cause of it"s web, the only difference is the spider spins the web out of himself, but ishvara creates the cosmos within itself.
