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2 days ago · Hindu philosophy or Vedic philosophy is the set of Indian philosophical systems that developed in tandem with the religion of Hinduism during the iron and classical ages of India. In Indian tradition, the word used for philosophy is Darshana ( Sanskrit : दर्शन; meaning: "viewpoint or perspective"), from the Sanskrit root 'दृश' ( drish ) meaning 'to see, to experience'.
4 days ago · Their ideas focused on the universality of Indian philosophy (particularly Vedanta) and the unity of different religions. It was during this period that Hindu modernists presented a single idealized and united "Hinduism." exemplified by the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta. They were also influenced by Western ideas.
5 hours ago · Nathalie Etoke is a professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of the book Black Existential Freedom. It’s an exploration of Black existence through the lens of existentialist thought ...
1 day ago · While the Upanishads form the philosophical foundation of Advaita Vedanta, the earliest available texts solely dedicated to explicating its principles are attributed to Gaudapada, a philosopher who lived in the sixth or seventh century CE.
4 days ago · The Vedanta schools of Hindu philosophy, which interpreted the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutra, provided the philosophical foundations of Vaishnavism. Due to the ancient and archaic language of the Vedic texts, interpretations varied among different schools, leading to differences between the denominations (sampradayas) of ...
2 days ago · The Vedanta School of Philosophy was also known as the Uttara Mimamsa school, concentrated on the philosophical teachings of the Upanishads rather than on the ritualistic injunctions of the...
3 days ago · The systems of the Six Schools (Saddarshana) of orthodox Hindu philosophy were formulated in terse sutras from about the beginning of the Common Era through the period of the Gupta empire (320–540). The most important of the Six Schools is the Vedanta (“End of the Vedas”), also called Uttara-Mimamsa or, later, Mimamsa.
