India's Upanisads in a theological perspective (eight lectures)
Professor Francis X. Clooney, SJ
A series of eight lectures.
The Upanishads, religious and philosophical texts of ancient India record the speculations of seers and sages about the ultimate meaning of life and the path to liberation. Rooted in older traditions, still they test bold new ideas about the world, the self and the highest truth. These lectures examine major thematic and stylistic issues in key Upanishads, with reference to their interpretation by great Hindu thinkers, and their relevance as well for comparative and Christian theologies. These lectures are intended primarily for students in theology and religious studies. No background in Indian studies or theology required, although such background in either would be useful, as would some knowledge of Sanskrit.
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Science and religion seminar: Cultural myths, biological forms, and subjective qualities: Western and Hindu views on the philosophy of biology
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Neurons, experience, and being: A discussion on consciousness
The lecture will present Indian theories of consciousness and experience in the context of some of the current discussions on consciousness and brain.
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Indian Practical Ethics: Law, Gender, Justice, Ecological and Bioethical Challenges
Professor Purushottama Bilimoria
Purushottama Bilimoria, PhD is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Studies at Deakin University in Australia and Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne. Visiting Professor and Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley and Dominican University, San Anselmo, and Shivadasani Fellow of Oxford University. His areas of specialist research and publications cover classical Indian philosophy and comparative ethics; Continental thought; cross-cultural philosophy of religion, diaspora studies; bioethics, and personal law in India. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Sophia, Journal of Philosophy of Religion, Springer. He also edits a book series with Springer on Sophia: cross-cultural studies in Culture and Traditions, Recent publication is Indian Ethics I, Ashgate 2007; OUP 2008, and Sabdapramana: Word and Knowledge (Testimony) in Indian Philosophy (revised reprint), Delhi: DK PrintWorld 2008; ‘Nietzsche as ‘Europe’s Buddha’ and Asia’s Superman, Sophia, vol 47/3 2008; Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (with Andrew Irvine, Ken Surin et al) Springer 2009. Teaches and publishes on Hindu religious philosophies. Also works on political philosophy, pertaining to ethics of rights, theories of justice, capabilities, education and gender issues in third world, particularly South Asian, contexts.
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