Philosophy

1. On the Idea of Method: Discussion of idea of method - Descartes` Rules for the Direction of our Native Intelligence; Bacon`s The New Organon, Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, and Locke`s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
2. The Rise of the Individual: Discussion of the emergence of the concept ofindividuality - Descartes` Meditations on First Philosophy, Leibniz`s Monadology, Ann Conway`s The Principles of the Most Modern and Ancient Philosophy, and Spinoza`s Ethics.

1. The question of Being (to on/ousia): Being as Idea in Plato`s Phaedo, Republic and the Sophist, Being as synthesis of hyle [matter] and morphe [form] in Aristotle`s Metaphysics andPhysics
2. Knowledge (episteme, doxa, sophia): Distinction between knowledge (episteme) and opinion (doxa) Plato`s Theatetus and Republic; Distinction between universals and particulars in Aristotle`s Posterior Analytics, Categories, Nicomachean Ethics and the De Anima

1. Introduction to Orthodox Systems of Indian Thought and the place ofVedanta. 2. Six Schools ofVedanta 3. Advaita Vedanta andVisistadvaita 4. Six Ways of Knowing: Theory of Knowledge inAdvaita 5. MetaphysicalPostulatesinVedanta:Brahman,Atman,Isvara,Jiva,Maya,World,Bondageand Moksa 6. Exposition of Tarkapada in the Brahmasutra-bhasya of Sankara