Hindu doubts about god: Towards a Mīmāmsā Deconstruction

Abstract

The term “MimiiIpsa,�? signifying an exegetical-hermeneutical enterprise and synonymous with the system or school known by this name, is associated with this’critique or doubt; I say “doubt�? and not the stronger “skepticism�? associated with Buddhism, and later with Hume in the West, for reasons that will become clearer in the discussion. To hint at it just a little, I believe the MimalPsa was predisposed towards a deconstruction of “onto-theo-logos�? of the kind that had emerged from within the broad Indian tradition, but did not develop this into a rigorous program, except to suggest its bare outline.