HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time

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HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time

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John Mbiti’s influential and controversial claim that traditional Africans experience time as having “a long past, a present, and virtually no future.”

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Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri and Chike Jeffers to represent the philosophical traditions of India, Africa and the African diaspora. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.

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HPI 44 - It All Depends - Nagarjuna on Emptiness: Nāgārjuna founds the Madhyāmaka (“middle way”) Buddhist tradition by “relinquishing all views” and arguing that everything is “empty.” by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 16 - Better Half - Women in Ancient India: Women philosophers and ideas about women in Buddhism, the Upanisads, and the Mahabharata. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 43 - We Beg to Differ - the Buddhists and Jains: An introduction to philosophical developments in Buddhism and Jainism up to the time of Dignāga in the sixth century AD. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 51 - Change of Mind - Vasubandhu and Yogacara Buddhism: Vasubandhu’s path to Yogācāra Buddhism, a form of idealism which holds that nothing can be mind-independent. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 28 - Who Wants to Live Forever? - Early Ayurvedic Medicine: Philosophical aspects of Ayurveda, focusing on the oldest surviving medical treatise, the Caraka-Samhita. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 29 - Practice Makes Perfect - Patanjali’s Yoga-Sutra: Yoga as presented by Patañjali offers a practical complement to the Sāṃkhya theory of the cosmos and the self. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 19 - When in Doubt - the Rise of Skepticism: Skeptical tendences in Indian thought and responses to skepticism from the Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta schools. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 21 - Innocent Until Proven Guilty - Mimamsa on Knowledge and Language: The Mīmāṃsā school put their faith in sense experience, and argue that the Veda, and hence language itself, had no beginning. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 38 - A Day in the Life - Theories of Time: Ancient Indian cosmology and the Vaiśeṣika defense of the reality of time and space. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 25 - Communication Breakdown - Bhartrihari on Language: The grammarian Bhartṛhari argues that the study of language is the path to liberation, because the undivided reality underlying language is brahman. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 45 - Motion Denied - Nagarjuna on Change: Nāgārjuna applies his emptiness theory to motion, change, and cognition. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 24 - No Two Ways About It - Sankara and Advaita Vedanta: Śaṅkara and his “non-dual” (Advaita) Vedānta, which teaches that only brahman is real, and the world of experience and individual self are mere illusion. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 35 - Ujjwala Jha and V.N. Jha on Nyaya: Prof Jha and Prof Jha discuss the theories and later influence of the Nyāya school. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 33 - Standard Deductions - Nyaya on Reasoning: Gautama and his commentators tell us how to separate good inferences from bad ones. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HPI 34 - The Truth Shall Set You Free - Nyaya on the Mind: Nyāya proposes that each of us has both a self and a mind, in addition to the body. by History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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HAP 17 - Event Horizon - African Philosophy of Time

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