Six systems of Indian philosophy: Friedrich Müller

This book belongs to the pen of the most prominent German-English philologist, an indologist and mythologist, professor of the University of Oxford Max Muller (1823-1900)-one of the founders of scientific religious studies, the editor of the first edition of the Rigveda, the translator of the Upanishad, the Jammapades and the Buddhist texts, the scientist, who had given the series to the publishing of the series “Sorceresses. Books of the East ”(more than 50 volumes). The scientific works of Müller himself, mainly devoted to Indian philosophy and linguistics, the issues of a comparative study of myths and religious representations of different nations, invariably distinguished “the talent of a living artistic presentation, thanks to which the most dry objects were made interesting and fascinating.” In his last great work “Six Systems of Indian Philosophy” (1899), the development of ancient Indian philosophy is traced from the period preceding the Upanishads, its history in the Buddhist and Vedic periods, the main philosophical teachings and general ideas are considered. On Russian KN …

Author
Müller Friedrich Max
Publisher
Academic project, 2009
Series
Concept