PHI 101 Lecture 9: PHI 101 Lecture 9

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 101
• Professor: Lawler James

Document Summary

Three primordial thoughts: basic outlook on life, the world is a whole, human beings are unique, distinct, everything is for them, things are out there for us, essential link between nature for us. Three doctrines: there is a single material substance, prakriti, material, there are infinite number of distinct souls of purushas, spirit, prakriti exists for the sake of the purushas, nature exists for the self, the soul can be free. Where do the elements come from: samkhya recognizes things are composed of elements (the position of. Where there"s smoke, there"s fire: smoke is caused by fire, cause and effect, smoke in contained within the fire and comes out of the fire. If every effect arises in this way from of its cause: the difference and the non-difference of cause and effect (ishvarakrishna) It is not possible to refer to an external creator god: because the cause is not outside the effect.