I Think Vs I Am: Western (Descartes) Vs Indian (Vedanta) Philosophical View

Rene Descartes’ work on philosophy is considered to be a cornerstone in the Western view of life. His dictum “I think therefore I exist” is an arrival at a certain evolution of the philosophical process. His work combined with later philosophers like Spinoza, Leibniz gave color to the logical derivations and thus a synthesis of the rational and empirical viewpoints. Whilst in the east, there was much work done in the field of philosophy and documented in the Vedic texts, organized as Vedant...