Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don't Tell You. By Devdutt Pattanaik. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2014.... more Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don't Tell You. By Devdutt Pattanaik. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2014. 179 pp.Devdutt Pattanaik's collection of Hindu tales is an enjoyable and absorbing exploration of queer themes in Indian written and oral mythology, and it is an addition to the Zubaan-Penguin joint list of gender-focused publications. Queerness is understood by the author to question notions of maleness and femaleness, in terms of both gender and sexuality. Included in the book are stories of men who become women and vice versa, the creation of children without both a father and a mother, men who wear women's clothes, and people who are neither male nor female or a little of both.The book begins with a series of statements reflecting a variety of sexual and gender identities and some short introductory paragraphs that attempt to highlight the cultural filters of which scholars must be aware before understanding queerness in Hinduism. Pattanaik touches on the importance of yuga ...
4 Introduction 5 Aims of the thesis 7 Statement of Terminology 9 Section One: The Republic 31 Cha... more 4 Introduction 5 Aims of the thesis 7 Statement of Terminology 9 Section One: The Republic 31 Chapter One: Introducing the Sun, Line and Cave 33 Chapter Two: Readings of the Allegories in Context 44 i. Knowledge, Belief and Gail Fine 44 ii. Propositions or Objects: Gonzalez on Fine 56 Chapter Three: My Reading 68 i. How Seriously Should We Take the Allegories? 68 ii. Ascending the Scale 78 iii. Noēsis and the Role Definition in Plato’s Epistemology 109 Chapter Four: A Closer Look at dianoia 112 i. The Dianoectic Image 113 ii. The Hypothesis 134 iii. Theaetetus: Hypothesis and Image in the Search for a Definition 146 Section Two: The Meno 152 Chapter One: Definition in the Meno 155 a. Meno’s Definitions 156 b. Socrates’ Definitions 159 c. What is Plato’s preferred answer? 162 ii. What role do definitions play in Plato’s epistemological scale? 169 a. Definition and Essence 170 b. Gail Fine and the Meno 171 Chapter Two: Aporia and the Psychology of Mathematics 181 i. What is aporia? 18...
entities to form rules. He combines these rules with known sensibles to predict the position or t... more entities to form rules. He combines these rules with known sensibles to predict the position or time of unknown sensibles or concrete events.
Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don't Tell You. By Devdutt Pattanaik. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2014.... more Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don't Tell You. By Devdutt Pattanaik. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2014. 179 pp.Devdutt Pattanaik's collection of Hindu tales is an enjoyable and absorbing exploration of queer themes in Indian written and oral mythology, and it is an addition to the Zubaan-Penguin joint list of gender-focused publications. Queerness is understood by the author to question notions of maleness and femaleness, in terms of both gender and sexuality. Included in the book are stories of men who become women and vice versa, the creation of children without both a father and a mother, men who wear women's clothes, and people who are neither male nor female or a little of both.The book begins with a series of statements reflecting a variety of sexual and gender identities and some short introductory paragraphs that attempt to highlight the cultural filters of which scholars must be aware before understanding queerness in Hinduism. Pattanaik touches on the importance of yuga ...
4 Introduction 5 Aims of the thesis 7 Statement of Terminology 9 Section One: The Republic 31 Cha... more 4 Introduction 5 Aims of the thesis 7 Statement of Terminology 9 Section One: The Republic 31 Chapter One: Introducing the Sun, Line and Cave 33 Chapter Two: Readings of the Allegories in Context 44 i. Knowledge, Belief and Gail Fine 44 ii. Propositions or Objects: Gonzalez on Fine 56 Chapter Three: My Reading 68 i. How Seriously Should We Take the Allegories? 68 ii. Ascending the Scale 78 iii. Noēsis and the Role Definition in Plato’s Epistemology 109 Chapter Four: A Closer Look at dianoia 112 i. The Dianoectic Image 113 ii. The Hypothesis 134 iii. Theaetetus: Hypothesis and Image in the Search for a Definition 146 Section Two: The Meno 152 Chapter One: Definition in the Meno 155 a. Meno’s Definitions 156 b. Socrates’ Definitions 159 c. What is Plato’s preferred answer? 162 ii. What role do definitions play in Plato’s epistemological scale? 169 a. Definition and Essence 170 b. Gail Fine and the Meno 171 Chapter Two: Aporia and the Psychology of Mathematics 181 i. What is aporia? 18...
entities to form rules. He combines these rules with known sensibles to predict the position or t... more entities to form rules. He combines these rules with known sensibles to predict the position or time of unknown sensibles or concrete events.
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