Monism

was built during the reign of the Mauryas by the king Ashok in the third century BC. 48. (3)Ramanuja propogated the philosophy of vishistavaita. Vishistavaita is a vedanta philosophy which belives in non-dualism. It is also described as qualified monism. 49. (3) A place where significant historical, cultural manuscripts and documents are kept are called archive. Archive has very important for research work of students and authors. 50. (1) Virashiva movement was began in karnataka in the twelfth…

The nature of the mind in relation to the body is a widely debated and unsolved topic that has plagued the human quest for truth. The question has deep philosophical roots and has several titles, for example, the mind-body problem, mind-body interaction problem, or the hard problem of consciousness. Prima facie, the question may appear unnecessary as we ourselves obviously have minds, and we can physically feel and experience the world around us. Descartes famously stepped up the game on this…

Emergentism Proyash Sarkar Emergentism refers to a wide range of theories—right from dualism to physicalism. We shall see below that the basic contention of emergentism is neutral about the dualism/physicalism debate. Roughly speaking, emergentism about the mental is the claim that the mental is an emergent property of the physical. It arises out of the basal property, i.e. the physical, yet retains its independence, in the sense that it has its independent causal power. Thus the mental has its…