What is Advaita Impersonalism? Advaita Impersonalism can be summarized into four claims: (a) Brahman is real or true, (b) the material world is false, (c) the soul or living entity is Brahman, and (d) there is nothing beyond Brahman. We have to remember that the first three of these claims […]
Philosophy
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How To Debate a Skeptic?
The Problem of Realism Skepticism was started by Descartes. He begins his argument by doubting everything and says that he could be hallucinating about the world. After claiming that nothing is certain, he says: I can doubt everything, but not my own existence, and concludes: “I think therefore I exist”. […]
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The Principle of Underdetermination
The Bhedābheda Mind-Body Doctrine Many people equate the mind to the brain, based on the neuroscientific experiments, in which injecting electrical signals into the brain results in novel experiences. This equivalence is in no small measure the result of the mind-body duality created by Descartes and readily embraced by Christianity […]