Popular Essays in Indian Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Mysore Hiriyanna

• Publisher: Wesley Press and Publishing House
• Year: 1952
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 132
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Popular Essays in Indian Philosophy, first published in 1952, is an anthology of seventeen philosophical essays by Prof. M. Hiriyanna. These varied essays cover multiple aspects of Indian philosophy—aims, values, ethics, metaphysics, worldview—and gives a panoramic view of the brilliance and sublimity of thought in ancient India as well as the diversity of opinions and the general ecosystem of openness to new ideas. Prof. Hiriyanna shows how the philosophers of India sought constant verification of their theories in practice. They believed that merely knowing something intellectually did not amount to true knowledge; to know was to become, and nothing less would suffice.

✦ Table of Contents

Prof. M. Hiriyanna
Publisher's Note
Contents
I. The Training of the Vedantin
II. The Aim of Indian Philosophy
III. Types of Indian Thought
IV. Karma & Free Will
V. The Twofold Way of Life
VI. Reincarnation - Some Indian Views
VII. 'The World & The Individual'
VIII. The Sankhya System
IX. The Idea of Purusartha
X. The Upanisads
XI. The Value of Sanskrit Learning & Culture
XII. The Ethics of Advaita
XIII. Maya - (1)
XIV. Maya - (2)
XV. Knowledge & Devotion
XVI. Six Points of View
XVII. Indian Philosophy