The University of the West Indies, Mona

This course deals with Indian Philosophy in its three major phases, the Vedic, Heterodox, and Orthodox Periods. It considers the origins of philosophy in the Indian context, its peculiarities in that cultural context, and the impact it has had throughout the world. Included in its coverage are great religio-philosophical traditions of the Heterodox Period such as Jainism and Buddhism, and, in the Orthodox Period, the six-fold method of metaphysical analysis of epistemology [doctrine of Knowledge], ontology [doctrine of Reality], theology [doctrine of God], cosmology [doctrine of the Universe], psychology [doctrine of the Soul] and soteriology [doctrine of Salvation].