Hindu philosophy is a collective title for the vast number of doctrines and beliefs that evolved in the Indian subcontinent (called Bharatvarsha or Bharatakhanda in Sanskrit texts) from ancient times to the present. In the first millennium BCE, the...

Self in Indian Philosophy The human phenomenological experience of the universe consists fundamentally of the self or subject encountering a world of objects. Thus the two main objects of philosophy are the subject or the self—its nature and...

In the history of the Indian subcontinent, following the establishment of Vedic culture, the development of philosophical and religious thought over a period of two millennia gave rise to what came to be called the six schools of aastika, or orthodox,...