The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s5.8

c5.s5.8

In the above is to be found the recognition of the position of the *Positive Background* (1914) as well as of the *Futurism of Young Asia* (1922). The same position has recently found another strong exponent in Helmuth von Glasenapp. Two of his papers in the *Jahrbuch der Shopenhauer-Gesellschaft* may be referred to. One is entitled "Buddhas Stellung zur Kultur" (Buddha's Attitude Towards Culture), 1934, and the other "Lebensbejahung und Lebensverneinung bei den indischen Denkern" (Life-affirming and Life-denying in Indian Thinkers), 1935. The second has arisen out of a criticism of Albert Schweitzer's *Die Weltanschauung der indischen Denker* (Munich 1935), in which the conventional idea of the Orientalists is represented in the most extreme manner, namely, that the "world-view" of the Indian thinkers is the "Nay" to or denial and negation of life and is entirely different from that of the Westerns which is alleged to consist in the "Yea" to or affirmation of world and life.