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Personal identity and eastern thought

Author(s) -

Carlos João Correia

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

filozofija i drustvo

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116

H-Index - 1

eISSN - 2334-8577

pISSN - 0353-5738

DOI - 10.2298/fid0903063c

Subject(s) - personal identity , identity (music) , buddhism , hinduism , gautama buddha , subject (documents) , epistemology , identity formation , self , sociology , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , aesthetics , self concept , religious studies , computer science , theology , library science

This paper aims to show that the problem of personal identity is a fundamental question of the classical Indian thought. Usually we tend to think that personal identity is a Western philosophical subject, and so we tend to forget the significance of the Self (Atman) in Hinduism and even in Buddhism. The author shows how the Indian thought approached the question of personal identity and which was the singular solution outlined in the work consensually attributed to Gotama, the Buddha

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