A TRANSLATION of Deussen’s Philosophy of the Upanishads 1 will be welcomed by all who have been familiar with this learned work in the original, and who hold it important that more accurate notions of ...

A recent encounter with a friend led to a chat about philosophy – philosophy being the subject that I taught and wrote about as a profession. As is so often the case, he had a glorified sense of ...

WE have undoubtedly a vast store of wisdom in the systems of Indian philosophy, and many Western philosophers in the modern period, from Schopenhauer to the Rhys Davids, have drawn inspiration from it ...

A COMPARATIVE study of Eastern and Western thought cannot but widen the understanding of philosophy as a collective effort to apprehend the ultimate sources of knowledge and life. It would also ...

I grew up in a supposedly “caste-less” world. I grew up not knowing my caste. My surname was just a cool name I had, one that linked me to my father’s family, and made it apparent that I come from a ...

A one-day conference on Indian philosophy was held at the SASTRA, a deemed to be university, here on July 25 as part of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research sponsored Indian Philosophers’ Day ...

Trichy: Indian Philosophers’ Day was observed at SASTRA Deemed University in Thanjavur on Thursday. Delivering a session on ‘Vasudaiva Kutumbakam’, Manjakkudi R Seshadri, head of Sanskrit department, ...