Samkara and husserl investigations on consciousness

Abstract

The philosophical exploration of consciousness has a long history in both Indian and Western thought Some of the conceptual models and analyses that have emerged in one cultural framework may be profitably reviewed in the light of another The present thesis is an attempt at an investigation of the very possibility of parallel notion of consciousness in the Advaita Vedanta of Samkara and the Transcendental Phenomenology of Husserl It is an attempt at exploration of I consciousness in these