La educación en las Upanishads

Abstract

Doctor Font y Puig continues his study of the Hindu sources with a clear, precise design of historifying the most important pedagogical sources. So he does an analytical study of the Upanishads pointing out some apparently contradictory but easily convertible notes. That is why the extension of wisdom to other casts than the Brahmanic one is only possible when the new individuals have the peculiar conditions which can be demanded or supposed to the brahmans. Having account of the high rank that the Upanishads acknowledge to the teaching function we can easily understand their individual system and the great importance of dialogue though at the same time they warn us against the abuse of dialogue owing to the tiredness that the abundance of words may produce. The author takes notice of the disharmony of several passages caused by the interference of the intellectual plan with the political and moral ones.