Essay for a Phenomenology of Vedic Thought

Abstract

This paper aims to present a Phenomenology of the Vedic thought viewed from the framework of the Philosophical Anthropology of Ernst Cassirer. We believe that doing so we can comprehend its systematics and then offer it as a capable basis to integrate the Vedic thought to the corpus of the investigations about the religious phenomenon, keeping it however as close as possible of its own premises. In order to do so, we will make a brief introduction to the Cassirerian theoretical perspective to the comprehension of the religious thought as so. Then we will deal with the phenomenology of the Vedic thought with special attention to the śruti texts. At last, we will present some of the investigative perspectives opened with our explanation