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Schopenhauer and Hindu Thought

2020· reference-entry· en· W3040745364 on OpenAlexaff
R. Raj Singh

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typereference-entry
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicNietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel
Canadian institutionsBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHinduismAsceticismBuddhismPessimismPhilosophyHegelianismEpistemologyReligious studiesTheology

Abstract

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This chapter begins with a presentation of writers during Schopenhauer’s time who also wrote about Hindu thought, such as Herder, Schelling, the Schlegel brothers, and Hegel, contrasting them with Schopenhauer’s relatively more knowledgeable approach. It then considers the question of whether Schopenhauer’s interest in Hindu thought diminished as he grew older or if his fundamental doctrines changed due to his subsequent studies of Buddhism; the author argues that it did not, contrary to some recent commentators. The chapter concludes by examining the extent to which Schopenhauer understood Hindu thought as an outlook that fully supports his pessimism and shows that Schopenhauer remained uninformed about how the Vedantic tradition includes the practice of bhakti (devotion, love). This is not exactly the path of Schopenhauerian asceticism but is an alternative to asceticism that involves a spontaneous embracing of the other-worldly in this world and an invitation to higher love in this life.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.009
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.052
GPT teacher head0.256
Teacher spread0.205 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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