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HPI 17 - Jessica Frazier on Hinduism and Philosophy

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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The Polytheistic Religious Framework in India

India has both models of personal beings that's coming out of the early Vedic kind of deity worship. animism is rife in early India, and you've got spirits and deities everywhere. So for any religious tradition to develop into a philosophical culture, the divine idea has to become philosophically rich.

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