History Of Indian And Africana Philosophy

The Cārvāka or Lokāyata tradition rejects the efficacy of ritual and belief in the afterlife, and restricts knowledge to the realm of sense-perception.

Ancient Indian cosmology and the Vaiśeṣika defense of the reality of time and space.

The Vaiśeṣika response to Buddhist skepticism about wholes made up of parts.

The Vaiśeṣika school offers a metaphysical analysis of the world and an atomistic physics.

Prof Jha and Prof Jha discuss the theories and later influence of the Nyāya school.

Nyāya proposes that each of us has both a self and a mind, in addition to the body.

Gautama and his commentators tell us how to separate good inferences from bad ones.

Nyāya philosophers explain how perception can bring us knowledge.

The Nyāya-Sūtra inaugurates a tradition of logical and epistemological analysis.

A leading expert on the founding text of Yoga tells us why, when, and by whom it was written.

Yoga as presented by Patañjali offers a practical complement to the Sāṃkhya theory of the cosmos and the self.

Philosophical aspects of Ayurveda, focusing on the oldest surviving medical treatise, the Caraka-Samhita.

The oldest treatise of Sāṃkhya enumerates the principles of the cosmos and of the human mind.

Francis Clooney joins us to discuss the religious and philosophical aspects of Vedānta.

The grammarian Bhartṛhari argues that the study of language is the path to liberation, because the undivided reality underlying language is brahman.

Śaṅkara and his “non-dual” (Advaita) Vedānta, which teaches that only brahman is real, and the world of experience and individual self are mere illusion.

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The founding text of the Vedānta school, the Vedānta- or Brahma-Sūtra, interprets the Upaniṣads as teaching that all things derive from brahman.

Mīmāṃsā expert Elisa Freschi speaks to Peter about philosophical issues arising from the interpretation of the Veda.

The Mīmāṃsā school put their faith in sense experience, and argue that the Veda, and hence language itself, had no beginning.