Philosophy of Antiquity. Philosophy of the ancient Greeks and Romans
The term “ancient philosophy” consists of two elements – the words “ancient” and “philosophy”, each of which gives the whole expression its own specific semantic shade. The word “ancient” comes from the Latin antiquus, which means “ancient”. In this sense, “ancient philosophy” is “ancient” philosophy and represents a conditional set of theoretical, aesthetic and ethical ideas of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. At the same time, “ancient philosophy” is “philosophy”. This word goes back to the Greek φιλοσοφία, literally “loving attitude towards wisdom”. Wisdom was understood by the Greeks as perfect and sufficient knowledge, and the “loving attitude” towards it was interpreted differently – by each philosopher exclusively from within his unique philosophical experience. In this sense, “ancient philosophy” is the philosophy of the ancient Greeks and Romans – regardless of antiquity as such – in fact, for the ancients their philosophy did not seem “ancient”, but was quite “timely” and “modern”.
Chinese philosophy. Features, origin and development of Chinese philosophy
The time of the formation and development of the Chinese philosophical tradition falls approximately on the same time as Indian philosophy, i.e. on the middle of the 1st millennium BC. Since familiarization with written culture in traditional China had a high social status, then from its very inception philosophy played a very significant role in society. Educated intellectual philosophers (zhu) were oriented towards understanding social life and the personal destiny of a person.
Indian philosophy. Features, origin and development of Indian philosophy
Features of Indian philosophy. The origin and development of a special cultural phenomenon called “philosophy” in Ancient Greece is closely connected with Vedic literature in India. “Vedas” (literally: “knowledge”) in India were collections of texts related to sacrifices, which had the status of sacred knowledge and included all the ideas of the ancient Indians about the world of gods and the world of people. Initially, there were three Vedas – “Rig Veda” – the Veda of hymns-rich, “Sama Veda” – the Veda of chants-samanas and “Yajdur Veda” – the Veda of sacrificial formulas-yajusas; later, “Atharva Veda” – the Veda of magic spells-atharvans was added to them. The corpus of Vedic literature was formed by the first half of the 1st millennium BC, although the process of formation of the texts of the Vedas was very lengthy.
The Universe in One Atom: Science and Spirituality in the Service of the World. Tenzin Gyatso
In this book, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, outlines his views on the possibility of spiritual cooperation between modern science and religiosity to eliminate suffering in human life. Based on personal experience of many years of religious practice, as well as familiarity with the main provisions and discoveries of modern science, the author discusses the possibility of developing a single point of view regarding such seemingly incompatible ideas as, for example, evolution and karma, thereby creating the prerequisites for a holistic a view of the world in which science and religion become two equal approaches to the study of a single reality.
Quantum philosophy of monistic idealism by Amit Goswami (+ book)
There is too much quantum supernaturalism around, too many experiments showing that the objective world is a world that moves forward in time like a clock, which says that action at a distance, especially instantaneous action at a distance, is impossible, which says that a thing cannot be in two or more places at the same time, represents an illusion of our thinking.