Concept
Samkhya
Overview
one of six schools of Hindu philosophy
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Hitherto we have observed the abstract principles; the following is to be noticed regarding the creation of the concrete actuality of the universe. The bodily creation consists of the soul habited in a material body; it comprehends eight orders of higher beings and five orders of lower beings, which constitute—with men, who form a single class—fourteen orders, and these are divided into three worlds or classes. The…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Close in meaning to Samkhya; the term itself is not named.
As is well known, the precepts are also divided into two classes, viz., precepts concerning the relation between man and God, and precepts concerning the relation between man and man. Of the classes into which we divide the precepts and which we have enumerated, the fifth, sixth, and seventh, and part of the third, include laws concerning the relation of man to man. The other classes contain the laws about the…
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
States what Samkhya is.
There is no philosophy in the world that is not indebted to Kapila, the founder of this _Sânkhya_ system. Pythagoras came to India and studied his philosophy and carried some of these ideas to the Greeks. Later it formed the Alexandrian school, and still later formed the basis of Gnostic philosophy. It became divided into two parts; one went to Europe and Alexandria, and the other remained in India, and became the…
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
Close in meaning to Samkhya; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Samkhya
- Vijnanabhiksu
- Dignāga
- Nagarjuna
- Śāntarakṣita
- Sanskrit
- Gaudapada
- Bhāviveka
- Vyasatirtha
- Swami Vivekananda
- Jñānagarbha
- Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
- Nyayakusumanjali
- Asuri (Samkhya)
Related ideas
- Lakshmi
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Buddhi
- Paul Deussen
- Pashupata Shaivism
- Ishvara
- Vijnanabhiksu
- Hinduism
- Two truths doctrine
- Carvaka
- Vedas
- Mircea Eliade
- Jainism
- Bhagavata Sampradaya
- Heinrich Zimmer
- Soteriology
- Saṃsāra
- Bhakti
- Moksha
- Georg Feuerstein
- Adi Shankara
- Metaphysics
- Kali
- Vishnu
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Al-Biruni
- Aśvaghoṣa
- Bhagavata Sampradaya
- Charaka Samhita
- Heinrich Zimmer
- Kaushitaki Upanishad
- Maitrayaniya Upanishad
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Sanskrit grammar
- Shvetashvatara Upanishad
- Sri Vaishnavism
- Tamas (philosophy)
- Ahamkara
- Principal Upanishads
- Āḷāra Kālāma
- Jakob Wilhelm Hauer
- Asuri (Samkhya)
- Knut A. Jacobsen
- Samkhya Pravachana Sutra
- Karma in Hinduism
- Panchashikha
- Richard Karl von Garbe
- Īśvarakṛṣṇa
- Tanmatras