The World Of Philosophy Is Incredible

[ici]

 

[Joseph Maynor]

One of the most difficult problems in philosophy, especially Indian Philosophy, is the relation or lack thereof between the self and the other.  This is rife with conflict and will haunt anyone on the path due to the framings internalized due to study of these materials.  You have to think this duality thru for yourself.

[zurew]

1 minute ago, Joseph Maynor said:

One of the most difficult problems in philosophy, especially Indian Philosophy, is the relation or lack thereof between the self and the other.  This is rife with conflict and will haunt anyone on the path due to the framings internalized due to study of these materials.

Do you know of any Indian academic philosophy websites that are comparable in quality to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy or to  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, or to PhilArchive, that can provide content in English?

Im just looking for something where there is careful scholarly work around the concepts and problems you described there .

[Joseph Maynor]

@zurew  No and I wouldn't trust any of those websites anyway.  You need to read the original materials.  All that is just secondary analysis.

[zurew]

1 hour ago, Joseph Maynor said:

No and I wouldn't trust any of those websites anyway. 

Peer reviewed articles - one of the highest quality secondary sources avalaible.

Much higher quality than youtube videos, wikipedia and other articles.

It also provides one well organized  place , where you can get a high resolution view about positions and arguments and  it also gives a  searchable place with a bunch of primary source references and links

1 hour ago, Joseph Maynor said:

You need to read the original materials

Ideally yes ,but in practice in a bunch of cases you wont know the language and you also wont know how the authors need to be interpreted because you wont have a deep and wide enough background knowledge about them and about their subtle positions on all the relevant things.

Secondary sources are also useful for proividing alternative interpretations of the original material.

[ici]

4 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

One of the most difficult problems in philosophy, especially Indian Philosophy, is the relation or lack thereof between the self and the other.  This is rife with conflict and will haunt anyone on the path due to the framings internalized due to study of these materials.  You have to think this duality thru for yourself.

It’s only a “problem” if you define it as such. What is there to solve? Problems and solutions are subjective.

[Joseph Maynor]

4 hours ago, zurew said:

Peer reviewed articles - one of the highest quality secondary sources avalaible.

Much higher quality than youtube videos, wikipedia and other articles.

It also provides one well organized  place , where you can get a high resolution view about positions and arguments and  it also gives a  searchable place with a bunch of primary source references and links

Ideally yes ,but in practice in a bunch of cases you wont know the language and you also wont know how the authors need to be interpreted because you wont have a deep and wide enough background knowledge about them and about their subtle positions on all the relevant things.

Secondary sources are also useful for proividing alternative interpretations of the original material.

I agree with you.  I'll give you two examples.  It is like the difference between reading Plato and a secondary source on Plato.  Or the difference between reading primary authority in law or some secondary source like a treatise.  Both can be useful in their own right but they are not the same.  

[Joseph Maynor]

3 hours ago, ici said:

It’s only a “problem” if you define it as such. What is there to solve? Problems and solutions are subjective.

Yes.  To make something a problem in a way is an attachment.  

[Cireeric]

9 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

I agree with you.  I'll give you two examples.  It is like the difference between reading Plato and a secondary source on Plato.  Or the difference between reading primary authority in law or some secondary source like a treatise.  Both can be useful in their own right but they are not the same.  

I agree with you that it definitely makes a difference if you read the original authors and sources or reading secondary sources from Stanford Encyclopedia for example. And reading the the real work has some unique value, which you dont get from the secondary sources. But specifically Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy gets recommanded by almost all professors of philosophy and is way higher quality than an wikipedia article. Since it is quite impossible to read all the major works of philosophy these places are often the best way to get a good understanding.

Edited 4 hours ago by Cireeric