The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c17.23

c17.23

Incidentally, it may be that Weber's thoroughgoing "rationalization" of the still fairly chaotic and uneven information on caste may have contributed to his failure or, at least, to his ambivalence in recognizing the full impact on Hinduism of the "Zerspaltung der Welt in zwei Prinzipien" and the quality of the resultant tensions. He speaks of an ontological dualism of worldly transience and unmutable eternal order, but repeatedly refers to the transcendental sphere as a *Hinterwelt*, thereby suggesting the unbroken monism of the magico-religious world view.³⁴