Philosophy
Six Schools and a Heresy
Six orthodox systems, the argument about how anybody knows, and the materialists
The darshanas · Advaita · Charvaka · 4 chapters · 10 min read
India's philosophy is not only Buddhism, and the argument between its schools ran for two thousand years.
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The systems and their quarrel
- 01Six Systems, Three PairsOn six systems, and a standard of argument worth measuring yourself against.
- 02How Do You Know That?On starting epistemology from a list of sources rather than a definition.
- 03Not TwoOn a school whose name is a denial, and what it is not saying.
- 04The School That Denied EverythingOn a school of materialists in ancient India, preserved by the people refuting it.