Brahman and Person

The essays deal with the concept of person in Indian thought. Quoting from Indian scriptural works, western philosophical and religious writings, and documents like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, they discuss the Vedantic conception of man, man as the meeting place of the cosmic powers in the Brahmanas and the Upanishads, the man of the caste system, the monadic man described in Jainism and Samkhya, the evanescent man of early Buddhism and the personality-related conception of man in the Bhagavad Gita. They delve into the Aristotelian-Thomist conception and the Christian conception of man. They examine the notion of human dignity in the cultures of India and the West.