Is Creation Due to Nature or God? Discuss the Arguments for Creation in the Samkhyakarika.
$2.95
humanities/philosophy
school essay
published 04/01/2008
review : Completed
level : Advanced
requested 0 times
The Samkhya School of philosophy has what I believe to be an agnostic note on the nature of creation and on the existence of God, although not atheistic in the sense that there is still a cause for evolution. In this essay I will try to show how the Samkhya idea of creation is appealing but it does have some problems associated with it. In my opinion it does adequately show a way in which things could have been created without the need for a creationist God.
Table of Contents
- The main arguments set out in the Samkhyakarika.
- Another important part of the Samkhya philosophy is the gunas.
- One thing that at this point seems unclear is the purpose of all this change within Nature.
- Now we come to some objections discussed in the commentary of verse 56.
- This leads to a further objection.
- The actions of insentient Nature are due neither to selfishness nor to pity.
