A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
How do reason and authority interact and trace each other’s boundaries? Which one is the first to be allowed to delimit its territory and, by means of that, also the other one’s one?
Should we try to periodise Indian philosophy or shall we give up any attempt, since each one will be criticised and is in some respect flawed? Periodisation, as recently highlighted by Julius Lipner, is a form of classification and as Continue reading Investigatio semper reformanda
In the number of years I have been teaching both Indian and Chinese philosophical traditions, I have found that the topic that students in general have the most trouble engaging with is that of “release from rebirth.” Of course, this Continue reading Mokṣa and the Undergraduate Classroom
What are good internet resources for research in Indian philosophy? Here are a few that come to my mind. The GRETIL project of electronic Sanskrit texts: http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/#Intro The Monier Williams Dictionary online: http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/ The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, whose Indian Philosophy section Continue reading Internet resources for Indian Philosophy
Friends, as researchers and teachers of Indian thought, from time to time we’ve been called upon to put Indian philosophy on the map, so to speak, in a simple, accessible way, whether in classrooms, talks, or papers directed to non-specialist Continue reading Indian Philosophy in One Paragraph