EDUCATION UGC NET
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
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Question
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Dhurta
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Susikshit
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Both (A) and (B)
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Charvaka is categorized as one of the nāstika or “heterodox” schools of Indian philosophy. It is considered an example of atheistic schools in the Hindu tradition.
Detailed explanation-2: -Charvaka, also called Lokayata (Sanskrit: “Worldly Ones”), a philosophical Indian school of materialists who rejected the notion of an afterworld, karma, liberation (moksha), the authority of the sacred scriptures, the Vedas, and the immortality of the self.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charvakas believe that there are four elements (bhutachatustaya): earth, water, fire and air. Everything is composed of these four elements, and it is the combination of these elements which produces consciousness (chaitanya).
Detailed explanation-4: -Definition. Charvaka (also given as Carvaka) was a philosophical school of thought, developed in India c. 600 BCE, stressing materialism as the means by which one understands and lives in the world.