Group Members
Nader Issa
Colin Szklarski
Devin Dixon
Ember Parr
Jeremy Buma
Quint Qualls
Discussion:
Wednesday, Group 2 proceeded to have a discussion of cosmic proportions concerning the Hindu religion. We discussed the concept of Hedonism vs Poly and Mono Theisms. We had a difficult time deciphering the differences between Hindu hedonism and Christian monotheism in regard to the Christian Trinity vs. Multiple Hindu Gods. We had trouble find our footing in that conversation, but we were able to come to the conclusion that if there was a difference, it was not a very significant one.
Factual Question: What is the difference between Polytheism, Monotheism, and Hedonism?
Well, I believe we may have a slight typo there, Nader. You have Hedonism published up above, but what the book actually had written was Henotheism. They are very different trains of thought. See the links below:
ReplyDelete1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism
I think, as we kind of discussed, the main difference between Christianity's idea of the trinity and the philosophy of Henotheism is that the first believes there is only one god, while the latter believes in multiple gods but only worships one as the head god. A similarity is that they both believe in a multifacetted god. In the end, I believe we managed to understand a little better the more loose make-up of Hinduism and Indian philosophy, although I would imagine it would take us considerably more time to get a more in depth view, for as the book said, there's really no one designation of Hinduism and it's made up of many regional disciplines that have been lumped together by us westerners into one conglomerate of a religion. The only thing that really bonded all these regional factions together was the usage of the Vedas as their scriptual foundation.
As for a suggestion for a factual and discussion question for next class, this is mine:
Factual -what were the fundamental differences between Confusionism and Taoism?
Discussion -Is it feasable to believe that Confusius' idea of good leadership instilling virtue and/or morality in its subjects in today's society, specifically within the US? Anywhere else it might work, if at all?