PHI 2389 Midterm: Midterm 1 Notes
20 Aug 2016
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Is placed rst because it summarizes all the upanishads. At times considered part of the vedas. Hume: covet not the wealth of anyone at all. Sounds as though it talks about creation. Not by one author, but a number of people. Different parts of the text follow different direction. Connections between texts play up certain themes and play down others. Ignorance partly refers to ritual action without thought. Both action and knowledge are needed in religion. Referring to two metaphysical views about reality at the time. Reality is constant change (1); it means becoming. Reality is a single substance which does not change at all but only appears to (2) What is the status of the world in relation to brahman (the unchanging substratum of the world) Upanishads maintain that there is a single alternate reality. Monism; an answer to the question of metaphysics about what is true being (page 29 intro in philosophy)
