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Resumen de India: ¿Qué puede enseñarnos?
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For readers who love the history of ideas, religion, language or the British Empire, and who enjoy hearing a Victorian scholar make his case in his own terms.
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Imagine being told that the country you are about to govern is the cradle of your own mind. That is the surprise Friedrich Max Müller gives young men bound for the Indian Civil Service in his Cambridge lectures of 1882. A German-born scholar at Oxford, he had spent decades editing the Rig-Veda, the oldest hymns of India. His question is plain. What can India, with its languages, sacred books and people, teach a European? His answer reaches from the growth of words and religions to the duty of honest knowledge and respect.
En este resumen
- 1India belongs at the centre of historyFree
- 2Sanskrit opened a new science of language
- 3Language carries a family history
- 4The Vedas hold the earliest Aryan thought
- 5Religion grows from naming the unseen
- 6Indians deserve fair judgment on truthfulness
- 7Indian philosophy asks the deepest questions
- 8Buddhism and the Indian view of time
- 9What India can teach and how views changed
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India belongs at the centre of history
Müller tells listeners preparing for service in India that they should go as students as well as rulers. He rejects the view of India as a distant land of curiosities. In his eyes it is a country where the human mind developed some of its choicest gifts.
His evidence is the Sanskrit books. They keep a record of thought that reaches back further than any other literature of the Aryan family. The earliest stage of the mind of our own linguistic family can be seen best in India.
He also speaks to a practical audience. A ruler who understands the language, the laws and the beliefs of the governed will rule better and judge fairly. For Müller, the study of India is a study of beginnings.
That’s 1 of 9 key points.
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Questions about India: ¿Qué puede enseñarnos?
What is India: What Can It Teach Us about?
It is a series of lectures by Max Müller on what the study of India offers. He covers Sanskrit, the Vedas, the growth of religion, Indian philosophy, Buddhism and the character of the Indian people.
Who was India: What Can It Teach Us written for?
He wanted future British officials to understand and respect the language, beliefs and history of the people they would govern.
What did Max Müller mean by Aryan?
He used Aryan for a family of languages and the people who first spoke their parent tongue. He traces their kinship through language and thought, but also speaks of an Aryan race.
Is India: What Can It Teach Us still worth reading?
It is worth reading for its account of early Sanskrit studies.
Is the book hard to read?
The lectures were written to be spoken, so the style is clear and often warm. You can follow the argument without knowing any Indian language.