INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

Introduction 
General considerations: 
- significance of indian philosophers in the history of philosophy 
- general characteristics of indian philosophy 
- Forms of argument and presentation. 
- roles of sacred texts, mythology, and theism 
- a general history of development and cultural background 
- the prelogical period

- The logical period 
- The ultralogical period 
- Presystematic philosophy 
- Development of the notion of transmigration 
- Origin of the concept of Brahman and atman 
- The principles underlying macrocosm and microcosm. 
- Early Buddhist developments 
- The four noble truths and the nature of suffering 
- The path of liberation: methods of eightfold path 
- The concepts of selflessness and Nirvana

- The philosophical portions  
   of the Mahabharata 
   -  Moksadharma 
   - The Bhagavadgita 
- Doctrines and ideas of the Buddhist "Tipitaka" 
- Early system building; the history of the sutra style 
- The "Purva-mimamsa-sutras" and Shabara's commentary. 
- The Vedanta-sutras; Relation to the “Mimamsa-sutras”. 
   - Contents and organization  
     of the four books. 
   - Variations in views. 
- The "Samkhya-karikas." Relation to orthodoxy 
   - The nature of the self (purusa). 
   - The concept of the three qualities (gunas) 
   - Epistemology 
   - Ethics

- The "Yoga-sutras":  
   Relation to Samkhya 
   - God, self, and body 
   - Theories and techniques 
     of self-control and meditation 
- The "Vaishesika-sutras." 
   - Organization and contents 
   - Structure of the world 
   - Naturalism 
   - Epistemology 
   - Ethics 
- The "Nyaya-sutras." 
   - Content and organization 
   - Epistemology 
   - Theory of causation 
     and metaphysics 
   - The syllogism  
     and its predecessors 
   - Other characteristic  
     philosophic matters 
-  The beginnings of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy: Contributions of the Mahasangikas 
   - Contributions  
     of the Sarvastivadins 
   - Contributions  
     of the Sautrantikas 
- The worldview of the "Arthashastra" 
   - Theories of kingship  
     and statecraft 
   - Concepts of the public good 
   - Relations between states 
   - The formation and  
      implementation of policy 
- Fragments from the Ajivikas and the Carvakas 
   - The Ajivikas 
   - The Carvakas

- Developments in Mahayana 
   - Nagarjuna and Shunyavada 
   - Contributions of Vasubandhu  
     and Asanga 
   - Contributions of Dignaga  
     and Dharmakirti 
- Purva-mimamsa: the Bhatta and Prabhakara schools 
   - Principal texts and relation  
     to Shabara 
   - Metaphysics and epistemology 
   - The Prabhakaras rejected 
   - Ethics 
   - Hermeneutics and semantics 
   - Religious consequences 
- The linguistic philosophies: Bhartrhari and Mandana-Mishra 
- Nyaya-Vaishesika 
   - The old school

- Nyaya-Vaishesika: 
   The new school 
- Samkhya and Yoga 
   - Samkhya and Yoga:  
     Metaphysics and epistemology 
   - Samkhya and Yoga: Ethics 
   - Samkhya and Yoga:  
     Raja Yoga and Hatha Yoga 
   - Samkhya and Yoga: 
     Religious consequences 
- Vedanta 
   - Fragments from the 
     Mandukya-karika 
     until Shankara 
- Vedanta:  
   Varieties of Vedanta schools 
   - Vedanta: 
     The concepts of nondualism

- Vedanta 
   - Shankara's theory of error 
   and religious and ethical concerns 
- Vedanta 
   Concepts of bhedabheda 
- Vedanta:  
   Ramanuja 
Vedanta:  
   Madhva 
- Vedanta:  
   Nimbarka 
- Vedanta:  
   Vallabha 
- Vedanta:  
   Caitanya

- Vaisnava schools 
- Shaiva schools 
   - Shaiva-siddhanta 
   - Kashmir Shaivism 
- Jaina Philosophy 
- Mughal Philosophy 
- 19th and 20th century Philosophy in India and Pakistan

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