Saturday, 20 December 2014

Lectures on the Cārvāka/Lokāyata Philosophy: An Overview of the Cārvāka/Lokāyata Materialism

Ramkrishna Bhattacharya What is Materialism? It is necessary to understand what, in the philosophical context, materialism stands for. George Stack has recently defined materialism as follows: Materialism is a set of theories which holds that all entities and processes are composed of  or are reducible to - matter, matterial forces or physical processes. All events and facts are explainable, actually or in principle, in terms of  body, material objects or dynamic material changes or movements. (George Stack. 1988. 'Materialism'...

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