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Back to SearchHPI 48 - Taking Perspective - the Jain Theory of Standpoints
Episode 23
The Jain theory of standpoints or non-onesidedness (anekāntavāda) makes truth a matter of perspective.
8 years, 5 months ago
HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna
Episode 22
A discussion with Jan Westerhoff, an expert on the great Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna.
8 years, 5 months ago
HPI 46 - No Four Ways About It - Nagarjuna’s Tetralemma
Episode 21
Nāgārjuna’s four-fold argument scheme, the tetralemma (catuṣkoṭi).
8 years, 6 months ago
HPI 45 - Motion Denied - Nagarjuna on Change
Nāgārjuna applies his emptiness theory to motion, change, and cognition.
8 years, 6 months ago
HPI 44 - It All Depends - Nagarjuna on Emptiness
Nāgārjuna founds the Madhyāmaka (“middle way”) Buddhist tradition by “relinquishing all views” and arguing that everything is “empty.”
8 years, 7 months ago
HPI 43 - We Beg to Differ - the Buddhists and Jains
An introduction to philosophical developments in Buddhism and Jainism up to the time of Dignāga in the sixth century AD.
8 years, 7 months ago
HPI 42 - In Good Taste - The Aesthetics of Rasa
Bharata’s Nāṭya-Śāstra and later works from Kashmir explore the idea of rasa, an emotional response to drama, music, and poetry.
8 years, 7 months ago
HPI 41 - Monima Chadha on Indian Philosophy of Mind
Season 1 Episode 1
Monima Chadha takes Peter through Buddhist-Hindu debates over mind and self.
8 years, 8 months ago
HPI 40 - Mind out of Matter - Materialist Theories of the Self
Pāyasi and the Cārvāka anticipate modern-day theories of mind by arguing that there is no independent soul; rather thought emerges from the body.
8 years, 8 months ago
HPI 39 - The Wolf’s Footprint - Indian Naturalism
The Cārvāka or Lokāyata tradition rejects the efficacy of ritual and belief in the afterlife, and restricts knowledge to the realm of sense-perceptio…
8 years, 9 months ago