A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
A series of reflections and notes around the relationship between Buddhism and the political category of the Empire. * The most superficial survey on Buddhist political ideas through history will immediately reveal that the favourite political system of Buddhism is Continue reading Buddhism and Empire (1)
Here is a link to a lecture on karma that I give in my Introduction to Asian Religions course at The University of Calgary. This is also a topic that I’m writing some papers on, with the hope of eventually Continue reading Karma: The Lecture
There are fields in which the contribution of applied ethics and deontics are more than needed, such as that of the programming of artificial intelligence connected to robots which might interact with human beings. Chaudhuri and Vardi (their article can Continue reading Possible applications of Mīmāṃsā deontics: on Chaudhuri and Vardi
पूर्वमीमांसासूत्रे सू॰ १।१।६ अरभ्य सू॰ १।१।२३ पर्यन्तम् शब्दस्वरूपविषये नैयायिकानां पूर्वपक्षाः प्रदर्शिताः (१।१।६–१।१।११) प्रतिवदिताश्च । १।१।६ विषयं प्रतिजानाति “कर्म एके तत्र दर्शनात्” इति । एके − नैयायिकाः मन्यन्ते, शब्दः कर्मैवास्ति, प्रयत्नानन्तरदर्शनाद् इति यावत् । १।१।७ सूत्रे द्वितीयो हेतुरुक्तः “अस्थानात्” इति । Continue reading मीमांसान्याययोः शब्दविषये विवादः -१-
The Philosophers’ Carnival is a monthly summary of the best philosophical papers which appeared on the web in the preceding month. It is not hosted by a single site, but rather, by various philosophically-oriented sites. Our blog has been selected Continue reading Philosophers’ Carnival, submissions wanted
This post is the European continuation of Andrew Nicholson’s one. Andrew is also the one who prompted me to write a European list. Indian philosophy is taught in at least two different places in Europe: (South) Asian (or Oriental or Continue reading PhD programs in Indian Philosophy part 2: Europe
As I noted some time ago, the principal language of Indian philosophy was Sanskrit. For some thinkers, Sanskrit’s status as a philosophical language was a direct consequence of its privileged position with respect to meaning and truth: the Sanskrit language Continue reading Linguistic accommodation and philosophical debate
The term tuccha means in Classical Sanksrit “worthless”, “insignificant”. In Vedānta, however, it gets a more specific technical meaning, to denote the absolute unreality of chimeral entities, such as the khapuṣpa (flower in the air), which will not and cannot Continue reading What is unreal?
Several years ago I had some pain in convincing a friend working on Husserl that the “phenomenologist” J. Mohanty which he knew too well was the same as the scholar of Sanskrit Philosophy J.N. Mohanty (I had similar problems in Continue reading Will the journey ever come to its goal? On Clooney 2013
Veṅkaṭanātha (traditional dates 1269–1370 (see Neevel 1977 for a convincing explanation of these too long life spans) is a complex figure who can be interpreted in different ways according to the facet one is focusing on. What is sure is Continue reading Veṅkaṭanātha’s contribution to Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta