Graduation Year
2019
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Humanities: Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture
Second Department
Religious Studies
Reader 1
Professor Andrew Aisenberg
Reader 2
Professor Daniel Michon
Abstract
As a Religious Studies and Humanities: Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture major, I have noticed several striking similarities between South Asian religious philosophies and Continental philosophy. However, this also brought my attention to the severe lack of representation of South Asian philosophies. I began to see the resonances with Jainism and Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism is a Humanism. Therefore, my thesis explores the similarities between atheism, subjectivity and responsibility as common concepts between Sartrean Existentialism and Jainism.
Recommended Citation
Kothari, Jahnavi, "Finding Parallels Between Jain Philosophy and Sartrean Existentialism: Recognising the Richness of South Asian Religious Philosophy Against the Developments in Continental Philosophy" (2019). Scripps Senior Theses. 1367.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1367
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
