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The noted Indian Jurist and Jain leader, Laxmi Mall Singhvi in his famous "Jain declaration of Nature", notes: Māhavīra proclaimed a profound truth for all times to come when he said: "One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them."
Indian philosophy, the systems of thought and reflection that were developed by the civilizations of the Indian subcontinent. They include both orthodox systems, namely, the Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Purva-Mimamsa (or Mimamsa), and Vedanta (Advaita, Dwaita, Bhedbheda, Vishistadvaita), and unorthodox (nastika) systems, such as Buddhism, Jainism, Ajivika, Ajnana, Charvaka etc. as well ...
Steiner had wanted to write a philosophy of freedom since at least 1880. [12] The appearance of The Philosophy of Freedom in 1894 [13] was preceded by his publications on Goethe, focusing on epistemology and the philosophy of science, particularly Goethe the Scientist (1883) [14] and The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception (1886). [15]
He suggests that people can not get rid of these instincts, so the existence of this human nature necessitates education and cultivation of goodness. [30] Xunzi argues that human nature is evil and that any goodness is the result of human activity. [21] [31] It is human nature to seek profit, because humans desire for sensory satisfaction. [31]
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 1902; Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, 1945; Alvin Plantinga, God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God, 1967; Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God, 1979; William Lane Craig, The Kalam Cosmological Argument, 1979
Show love for our planet with these inspiring Earth Day quotes. They're all about nature, the environment, and helping to spread awareness on April 22.
Statue of Vivekananda at the Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre. Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Datta (name shortened to Narendra or Naren) [18] in a Bengali Kayastha family [19] [20] in his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street in Calcutta, [21] the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival. [22]
The best known and most cited section of the Xunzi is chapter 23, "Human Nature is Evil". Human nature, known as xing (性), was a topic which Confucius commented on somewhat ambiguously, leaving much room for later philosophers to expand upon. [37] Xunzi does not appear to know about Shang Yang, [38] but can be compared with him.