Deceased (1923–2015)
Q. Who created concentration camps?
Nazi Germany
Q. Who discovered Auschwitz?
Rudolf Höss
Q. Who is Rishi Kanada?
Kanada (Sanskrit: कणाद, IAST: Kaṇāda), also known as Kashyapa, Ulūka, Kananda and Kanabhuk, was an ancient Indian natural scientist and philosopher who founded the Vaisheshika school of Indian philosophy that also represents the earliest Indian physics.
Q. Who is the first Indian philosopher?
Earliest Hindu philosophy were arranged and codified by Hindu Vedic sages, such as Yajnavalkya (c. 8th century BCE), who is considered one of the earliest philosophers in recorded history, after Aruni (c. 8th century BCE).
Q. Who are the oldest philosophers?
Classical Greek philosophers
- Socrates (469 – 399 BCE)
- Euclid of Megara (450 – 380 BCE)
- Antisthenes (445 – 360 BCE)
- Aristippus (435 – 356 BCE)
- Plato (428 – 347 BCE)
- Speusippus (407 – 339 BCE)
- Diogenes of Sinope (400 – 325 BCE)
- Xenocrates (396 – 314 BCE)
Q. Who is the oldest known philosopher?
Thales
Q. What are the six system of Indian philosophy?
Hindu philosophy encompasses the philosophies, world views and teachings of Hinduism that emerged in Ancient India. These include six systems (shad-darśana) – Sankhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mimamsa and Vedanta.
Q. What are the six Pramanas?
Hinduism identifies six pramanas as correct means of accurate knowledge and to truths: Pratyakṣa (perception), Anumāṇa (inference), Upamāṇa (comparison and analogy), Arthāpatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances), Anupalabdhi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof) and Śabda (word, testimony of past or …
Q. Who started philosophy?
The separation of philosophy and science from theology began in Greece during the 6th century BC. Thales, an astronomer and mathematician, was considered by Aristotle to be the first philosopher of the Greek tradition. While Pythagoras coined the word, the first known elaboration on the topic was conducted by Plato.
Q. What is heterodox system?
Heterodox economics refers to a variety of separate unorthodox approaches or schools such as institutional, post-Keynesian, socialist, Marxian, feminist, Georgist, Austrian, ecological, and social economics, among others.
Q. Which are the Nastik philosophy in Indian philosophy?
The four most studied Nāstika schools of Indian philosophies, sometimes referred to as heterodox schools, are Buddhism, Jainism, Cārvāka, and Ājīvika.
Q. Which of the following school is known as Lokayata?
Charvaka (Sanskrit: चार्वाक; IAST: Cārvāka), also known as Lokāyata, is an ancient school of Indian materialism. Charvaka holds direct perception, empiricism, and conditional inference as proper sources of knowledge, embraces philosophical skepticism and rejects ritualism and supernaturalism.
Q. Which Purushartha is accepted by Carvakas?
The four puruṣārthas are Dharma (righteousness, moral values), Artha (prosperity, economic values), Kama (pleasure, love, psychological values) and Moksha (liberation, spiritual values).
Q. How many Pramanas does Nyaya philosophy accept?
Nyaya school’s epistemology accepts four out of six Pramanas as reliable means of gaining knowledge – Pratyakṣa (perception), Anumāṇa (inference), Upamāṇa (comparison and analogy) and Śabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts).
Q. Which of the following was the doctrine of Ajivika school?
Absolute determinism and no free will Both Jaina and Buddhist texts state that Ājīvikas believed in absolute determinism, absence of free will, and called this niyati. Everything in human life and universe, according to Ajivikas, was pre-determined, operating out of cosmic principles, and true choice did not exist.
Q. Who donated Barabar Caves to Ajivikas?
The cave of Visvakarma was offered by Ashoka to the Ajivikas in the year 12 of his reign, about 261 BCE: “By King Priyadarsin, in the 12th year of his reign, this cave of Khalatika Mountain was offered to the Ajivikas. “
Q. Who was the great pontiff of Jainism?
The origins of Jainism are obscure. The Jains claim their religion is eternal, and consider Rishabhanatha the founder in the present time-cycle, and someone who lived for 8,400,000 purva years. Rishabhanatha is the first tirthankar among the 24 Tirthankaras who is considered mythical figures by historians.
