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The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy (Classic Reprint)
The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy - Classic Reprint Author:Max Muller INDIAN PHILOSOPHY. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER Philosophy and Philosophers. While in most countries a history of philosophy is inseparable from a history of philosophers, in India we have indeed ample materials for watching the origin and growth of philosophical ideas, but hardly any for studying the lives or characters of those who founded or supporte... more »d the philosophical systems of that country. Their work has remained and continues to live to the present day, but of the philosophers themselves hardly anything remains to us beyond their names. Not even their dates can be ascertained with any amount of certainty. In Greece, from the earliest times, the simplest views of the world and of the destinies of man, nay even popular sayings, maxims of morality and worldly wisdom, and wise saws of every kind, even though they contained nothing very original or personal, were generally quoted as the utterances of certain persons or at least ascribed to certain names, such as the Seven Sages, so as to
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CONTENTS; INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER; page; Philosophy and Philosophers i; Srutam and Smntama; Upanishad-period, from about 700 b c4; Period antecedent to the Upanishads5; Intellectual Life in ancient India7; Kshatriyas and Brahmans 8; The Evidence of the Upanishads, (Janaka, A^atasatru 1 r; Agatasatru 13; Buddhist Period14; Prasenagdt and Bimbisara16; Brahma-g&la-sutta16; Mahabharata21; Buddha23; Greek Accounts26; Buddhist Pilgrims, Hiouen-thsang27; King Har&ha3°; CHAPTER II The Vedas; The Vedas 33; The Philosophical Basis of the Vedic Gods 35; Three Classes of Vedic Gods 37; Other Classifications of Gods( 38; The Visve or All-gods 39; Tendencies towards Unity among the Gods 4°; Henotheism 4°; Monotheism and Monism 4*; Pragrapati 4a; Visvakarman 43; Tvashfri 43; Search for a Supreme Deity 45; Hymn to the Unknown God 4^; Brahman, Atman, Tad Ekam 48; Nasadiya Hymn 49; Brahman, its various Meanings 5a; XXli CONTE« less