Skepticism: Ancient 'East' and Modern 'West' - Part III

Bina Gupta [Part I & II of this essay can be accessed here] In this section, I would like to draw special attention to the epistemological problem of perception versus inference, and the bearing it has on the respective metaphysical theories of Hume and Carvaka[i]. There exists a basic similarity between Hume and Carvaka in that for both thinkers theory of perception form the basis of their skepticism on many related matters such as substance, assumptions about the nature of causality, status of the causality, status of the external...

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Ramkrishna Bhattacharya on György Lukács

Ramkrishna Bhattacharya György Lukács (13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician,literary historian, and critic. He was, according to Wikiipedia, one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxistideological orthodoxy of the USSR. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness....

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