ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors provide their responses to philosopher and other authors to read the Position Statements. The philosopher and other authors are Freya Mathews, Charles Taliaferro, Trichur S. Rukmani and Jerome Gellman. As Mathews notes, panpsychism and Daoism have some common intersections. Taliaferro offers a cogent philosophy of God. As with Christianity, the place of the via negativa in understanding the Dao has changed through the centuries. Rukmani writes of the unity of Brahman, yet one wonders if she is not moulding her Indian philosophy too much to the objectivity she finds so appealing in western philosophy and science. Although Gellman clearly writes that to be a Jew is to be a member of a community, he outlines an individualized soteriology, the goal of which is to be God-like. Gellman is shaped by Judaism and is "committed to it enough to allow for self-transformation and to permit to benefit from its wisdom over time".
