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Short Collection: On Major Works of Islamic Civilization
(2022)
A collection of four short papers on Major Works of Islamic Civilization
Dionysus in India
(2022)
In this paper, I propose that finding Dionysus’ counterpart in India is a futile task unless the relation focuses on Dionysus as a divine force of nature variously manifest following the meaning of the Rig Veda verse ...
What Plato Shows that Callicles Infers in the Gorgias
(2022)
In this paper, I argue that Callicles has plausible reasons to accuse Socrates of playing word tricks around the notions of nature and convention. Whether Callicles is right or wrong to accuse Socrates of doing so is not ...
"The Religion of the Future" and Vedānta: The Importance of Consulting Primary Sources
(2022)
In his book, The Religion of the Future, Unger groups distinct philosophies under the term Overcoming the World (henceforward, OW). This is problematic because Unger makes several metaphysical and epistemological claims ...
Socrates’ Four Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul in the Phaedo: Informal Fallacies, Ambiguities, and Overall Inconsistency
(2022)
In this paper, I argue that none of Socrates’ four arguments for the immortality of the soul can prove it to be immortal. All that the four arguments amount to is an inference to the best explanation. However, this inference ...
A Graduate Book Report on "The Nay Science - A History of German Indology"
(2022)
In the Nay Science – A History of German Indology, Vishwa Adluri and Joy Bagchee make three crucial claims: that the historical-critical method used by German Indologists to study the Indian Epic Mahābhārata evolved out ...
The Lectio Principle and Its Relation To the Plausibility of a Kashmir Recension of the Bhagavad Gita
(2022)
In this paper, I explore how Otto Schrader, Krishna Belvalkar, Franklin Edgerton, and Vishwa Adluri justify the plausibility of a Kashmir recension of the Gita by employing the lectio principle. Lectio difficilior means ...
Contraries and Contradictories: The Identity and Nature of Lady Conway’s Creature that Endures through Time
(2022)
One of the central problems in Anne Conway’s metaphysical philosophy is answering the question: what is the identity and nature of the creature than endures through time? There are two basic ways of interpreting Conway’s ...