La mente diáfana

La mente diáfana covers more than two thousand years of history of the thought of the Hindu country. Starting from the Vedic period, he begins a journey that goes through the most important Indian philosophical traditions, such as the upanisad or the samkhya, in which his dogma and the philosophical traces that they leave in other thoughts that are developed along the way are analyzed. the history. The tour takes a look at the great myths and symbols of Hindu devotion to delve into their ways of life and social institutions; he dialogues with skeptics, materialists and nihilists, who pave the way for the two great currents of heterodox thought: Buddhism and Jainism; it goes through the atomists and the logical realism of the nyaya; and it comes to an end with a synthesis of the Vedanta and the Shivaism of Kashmir, which closes this journey through the history of Hindu thought. All this philosophical path tries to reveal a dominant idea of ??Indian thought: 'mental culture'. This idea, which in the West tried to rescue with little success, postulates a correspondence between the order of thought and the cosmic order, that is, between what happens in the head and what happens out there, where the mind is capable of unfold and their habits end up deciding the fate of the individual. Starting from the history of Indian thought and this prevailing idea, Juan Arnau analyzes the fundamental ingredients of every great philosophy and manages to bring India's most valuable legacy closer to the West.