El mito de la oposición entre filosofía occidental y pensamiento de la India El Brahmanismo. Las Upanishads

Abstract

The present article is part of a series of articles whose fundamental theses are: 1. Philosophy existed in India; 2. Until the XVIIth century India, Greece and Europe developed the same philosophical themes; 3. Until the XVIIth century the cultural characteristics regarding rationality and irrationality where the same in India and in the West; 4. The comparison between Indian and Western thought must have as its extreme limit the XVIIth century in which European culture adopts a novel and unique form due to several factors. The article deals with two doctrines of the Upanishads: firstly the doctrine of Brahman/Átman, indicating the semantic evolution of both words and the fundamental characteristics of both concepts; and the doctrine of the correspondences between the macrocosm and the microcosm. The article brings up Greek and Western doctrines which offer similitudes or points of contact with the mentioned Indian doctrines.