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Ep 315: Arshia Sattar and the Complex Search for Dharma

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is There Such a Tradition Within Indian Philosophy?

I didn't know if there was such a tradition within Indian philosophy, in the sense that you're starting from certain first principles and using them to get somewhere. So answers remain illusive, but you can have candidate answers as you do in Western philosophy. What we think of as Indian philosophy is actually metaphysics, ethics, ontology,. But it's not philosophy in the way that Aristotle or Hegel or, you know, the cant, none of those. And there are six schools and now actually now I feel at this time, we must not say Indian, Epic and Indian philosophy, we must say Hindu, Epic and Hindu Philosophy. Because that's the place that we're being pushed to

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