Philosophyदर्शन
The disciplined pursuit of wisdom across Indian and world traditions
A survey of classical Indian darshanas, Buddhist and Jaina logic, and their dialogue with Western epistemology, ethics, and political thought, designed to train rigorous argumentative writing.
- 01
The Six Astika Darshanas
An introduction to the six orthodox schools of Indian philosophy that accept the authority of the Vedas, and how they organise questions of knowledge, reality, and liberation.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 02
Buddhist and Jaina Logic and Epistemology
How Buddhist and Jaina philosophers built rigorous, non-Vedic systems of logic, epistemology, and metaphysics that reshaped Indian intellectual life.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 03
Vedanta: Shankara, Ramanuja, and the Nature of Brahman
A close comparison of Advaita and Vishishtadvaita Vedanta through their differing interpretations of Brahman, the self, and the world.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 04
Ethics and Political Thought: From Kautilya to Ambedkar
Tracing Indian ethical and political philosophy from classical statecraft through modern constitutional morality.
5 concepts · 6 sources · 3 exercises
- 05
Greek and Hellenistic Foundations of Western Philosophy
The emergence of systematic rational inquiry in classical Athens and its transformation into practical schools of life during the Hellenistic period.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 06
Comparative World Philosophy: Islamic, Chinese, and African Traditions
A comparative examination of falsafa in the Islamic world, the classical Chinese schools of Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism, and African philosophical traditions of communal personhood.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
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Modern Western Philosophy: From Descartes to Nietzsche and the Analytic–Continental Split
Tracing the rationalist–empiricist debate, Kant's critical synthesis, Nietzsche's critique of morality, and the twentieth-century divergence between analytic and continental philosophy alongside global ethical universalism.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises