Essays about: "Advaita Vedanta"

Found 2 essays containing the words Advaita Vedanta.

1. 1. Philosophy of the Teacher Without Contradictions : An Exploration into Indian Philosophy (Advaita Vedanta of Sankara)

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS)

   Author : Naga Satya Jonnalagadda; [2022]
   Keywords : Adhyasa; Advaita; Brahman; Consciousness; Contradictions; Existence; Neti-Neti; Sankara; Sutra; Superimposition;

   Abstract : As human beings, we come across situations where our reasons, experience, or guidance from adults can be contradictory. A teacher also experiences these contradictory situations in the educational setting. In such cases, what should be the teacher's philosophy is my main idea or research question of this paper. READ MORE

3. 2. Western and Indian theories of consciousness confronted A comparative overview of continental and analytic philosophy with Advaita Vedanta and Madhyamaka Buddhism

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Author : Michele Cossellu; [2014-01-22]
   Keywords : consciousness; nonduality; phenomenology; Advaita Vedanta; Madhyamaka Buddhism; epistemology;

   Abstract : The burgeoning field of cognitive studies in the West is motivated by a renewed interest in conscious experience, which arose in the postmodern zeitgeist in response to the positivist, scientific ideal of objectivity. This work presents a historical overview of Western philosophy from its dawn, focusing on the evolution of key concepts in metaphysics, ontology and epistemology, to arrive at the examination of modern theories on consciousness. READ MORE