The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s10.35

c10.s10.35

The sociological data in the Buddhist, like those in the other “Hindu,” documents introduce us therefore to the wealth of categories in the subversion of “social determinism,” closed systems or absolutism of monists as prevalent, for instance, in modern times from Hegel to Durkheim. It is essentially the atmosphere of “social mobility” and the “perpetual increment of life upon itself,” such as is engendered by the “initiatives of the will,” the creative urges of the individuals and *le volontà individuali*, in which we move about in the midst of Pali (as well as Sanskrit-Buddhist) texts. The fundamental