Explore structured courses on Indian Knowledge Systems—covering logic, aesthetics, linguistics, and ethics—with emphasis on primary texts and contemporary relevance.
A specialized study of reasoning techniques employed in Indian philosophical works. Learn to analyze debates in original Sanskrit texts, understand classical argumentation, and apply these methods in your own frameworks. Includes contemporary discussions and a historical evolution of methodologies.
Part I explores Indian aesthetic theory via selections from the Nāṭyaśāstra, focusing on Rasa, interpretive frameworks, and modern relevance. Part II surveys India’s intellectual history with emphasis on meaning, cognition from words and sentences (śābdabodha), and meaning generation in poetry through primary texts and key thinkers.
A deep dive into moral theories in Indian knowledge traditions: Good and pleasure in Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika, Pūrvamīmāmsā, Sānkhya, and Advaita Vedānta; Good and liberation across schools. Includes modules on knowledge sources, theories of error, and causality in Indian epistemology.