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N. Kanaeva

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Mystical Intuition as an Instrument of Indian Philosophy

Ideas and Ideals December 24, 2025 N. Kanaeva

The specificity of Indian epistemic culture is the inclusion of mystical intuition among cognitive abilities, and the absence of the concept of reason as the highest cognitive ability. In Indian traditional religio-philosophical texts intuition, often referred to as mystical experience, was used by default. In the philosophical works of Aurobindo Ghosh (1872–1950), its epistemological status is...