Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Samudra and Rigveda [Re: Vishal_Agarwal] #18384 - 07/05/02 04:15 AM Edit Reply Quote

That's a brilliant answer to Witzel of Frawley! Witzel is actually a disgrace to scholarship, making so many blunders and sticking stubbornly to outdated and even totally wrong and disproven data and models. But that may be his background to stick to an in his eyes glorious age of German scholarship. The zeal and care for details produced many works, but the axiomata had a totally wrong flavour of 'isolational thinking' and 'superiority complex' due to the military successes (I believe the 'superiority complex' had its root with the rise of the Prusian of Frederic the Great in the 18th century and polished by Bismarck): divide cultures in groups, races, classes, etc. and isolate them from one another and raise the own one to supreme status. Project this into the academic world, and look upon the many disciplines in this way, like biology, chemistry, psychology, sociology, history, etc. Strangely enough Witzel is living nowadays. It looks, however, as if his mind is still sometimes in the Prusian period (consciously or unconsciously). Only some people having some nostalgia are supporting this isolated case. It's their decision, so the consequences are theirs too. But the world moves on and so do the academic developments. I hope that Witzel will change. But I'm having my doubts. Edited by Ishwa (07/05/02 04:20 AM)