Rāmānuja thought model
India · 1017–1137
A philosopher who taught qualified non-dualism (Viśiṣṭādvaita) and prized loving devotion to a personal God.
Perspective
The individual is contained within the whole yet never lost, and finds its meaning in devotion and relation.
Value model
Individual agency30
Rational inquiry48
Risk awareness25
Social conformity70
Self-overcoming80
Practicality25
Language skepticism25
Decision principles
- Can you join with the whole without erasing the individual?
- Has devotion turned into compulsion?
- Hold love and order together.