Course Contents:
a) Definition of buddhi or jñāna (cognition), its two kinds; Definition of smṛti; Two kinds of smṛti (memory); Definition of anubhava, its division into veridical (yathārtha) and non-veridical (ayathārtha); Three kinds of nonveridical anubhava; Definitions clarified in Tarkasaṁgraha Dīpikā.
b) Four-fold division of pramā and pramāṇa. Definition of “Kāraṇa” (special causal condition) and “kāraṇa” (general causal condition). The concept of anyathāsiddhi (irrelevance) and its varieties.The definition of kārya (effect). Kinds of cause: smavāyi, a-samavāyi and nimitta kāraṇa (definitions and analysis).
c) Definition of pratyakṣa and its two-fold division: nirvikalpaka and savikalpaka jñāna. Evidence for the actuality of nirvikalpaka.
d) Sannikarsa and its six varieties. Problem of transmission of sound; the claim of “anupalabdhi” as a distinctive pramāṇa examined.
Course Contents:
a) Introduction: Concerns and Presuppositions, Concept of Sthitaprañjna, Karmayoga: (Gīta) Puruṣārthas and their inter-relations.
b) Meaning of Dharma, Concept of ṛṇa and ṛta. Classification of Dharma: sādhāraṇadharma and Asadharana Dharma,Varnasrama Dharma
c) Vidhi and Niṣedha
d) Buddhist Ethics: Pancaśīla, Brahmavihārabhāvanā (Bauddha) Anubrata, Mahābrata, Ahimsā.
e) Jaina Ethics: anubrata, mahᾱbrata
f) Mimᾱṁsa Ethics: nitya naimittika karma and kāmya karma, the imperative in kāmya karmas and in kāmya karmas involving hiṁsā.
Course Contents:
a) Definition and classification of pada
b) Introduction of concepts of āsatti, yogyatā, tātparya, ākāṁṣā
c) Different types of lakṣaṇā
d) śābdabodha
Course Contents:
a. Nature and scope of applied ethics.
b. Killing: Suicide, Euthanasia, Animal killing.
c. Poverty, Affluence and Morality.
d. War and Violence: Terrorism.
e. Right: Nature and Value of Human Rights—Discrimination on the basis of race, caste and religion.
f. The Ethics of Care.
g. Value beyond sentient beings, Reverence for life, Deep Ecology, Concepts of Kinship Ethics.
h. Ecological Concern in Indian thoughts: Jaina and Bauddha views.