When thinking about major centers of philosophical thought, most people automatically think about the great Western thinkers thinking about men from Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato to Descartes, Locke, and Kant usually forgetting about another substantial source of philosophy, the Indian subcontinent. The word philosophy is derived from Greek to mean “the love of wisdom” and the Indian people have shown that they truly possess this love from ancient times to today’s modern society. Indian philosophy tries to explain man’s existence from creation to death and what may lay beyond death all in relationship to religion. Indian philosophical thought is slightly different than the Western approach and can be broken down into six parts: (1) knowledge, (2) reality, (3) God(s), (4) space and the universe, (5) man, souls, and mind, and (6) salvation. The Western analogy to this these categories are, respectively: epistemology, ontology, theology, cosmology, psychology, and......
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