Sangeetha Menon's Philosophy Class

20/09/2026

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PART 1 - What does it truly mean to think critically? - INDIAN PSYCHOLOGY SERIES
CRITICAL THINKING - PART 1
In this video I explore critical thinking through three interconnected movements:
- Question the Given invites us to pause before accepting familiar ideas as unquestionable truths. It asks us to uncover the assumptions hidden beneath what appears obvious.
- Consider Multiple Possibilities encourages us to move beyond a single explanation. Observation, dialogue, other perspectives, and different sources of knowledge can reveal dimensions that one standpoint alone may overlook.
- Examine the Knower turns inquiry towards the person who is thinking. Our memories, emotions, assumptions, and inherited perspectives influence what we notice and how we interpret it. Critical thinking, therefore, requires not only the examination of ideas but also self-reflection.
- Together, these themes present critical thinking as more than fault-finding or argumentation. It is a disciplined inquiry into what we believe, how we know, and how the knower participates in the formation of knowledge.
This video is part of the Indian Psychology Series.

PART 1 - What does it truly mean to think critically?This video e...

13/04/2026

Almost all times, we perceive and shape our life based on what we consider as real, and its varying shades from the faintest to the boldest... If Yajnavalkya and Socrates will cross time and space, and dialogue on this question what would be their reflections ???

12/11/2025

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VnB5mRAbgoY?feature=share Are our minds capable of thinking of the unknown? This is the question I wish to discuss with you today! Or even better, let us ask "can we know the unknown"?

Are our minds capable of thinking of the unknown? This is the question I wish to discuss with you today! Or even better, let us ask "can we know the unknow...

26/10/2025

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We now turn to Arjuna, not just as a warrior, but as a symbol of inner conflict that fundamental transforms to eventual clarity. I reserved the discussion on Arjuna towards the end of the Mahabharata series, not only because his narrative brings light to the darker emotional terrains we have already explored, but also because his transformation invites us to pause, reflect, and even, perhaps, smile, because something continues to shift inwardly as his struggle unfolds in front of us. Unlike Dhritaraashtra’s resignation or Duryodhana’s envy, Arjuna’s crisis is deeply ethical and to some extent his inner conflicts with his attempts for self-integration.
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We now turn to Arjuna, not just as a warrior, but as a symbol of inner conflict that fundamental transforms to eventual clarity. I reserved the discussion on...

10/08/2025

What happens to a Self that is all empty inside, but surrounded by riches and pleasures outside?
Duryodhana is such a Self - an "Empty Self".
I continue "Consciousness Conversations on the Mahabharata".
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If we are to understand Duryodhana, we must first understand that his story is not simply one of villainy or ambition.🕓It is a story shaped by deep psycholo...

21/06/2025

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06/06/2025

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Hello Friends

I continue my reflections on "Desire".

This time I bring you the *Mahabharata*, and more specifically, the *"Kāma Gīta"* - just three verses - but exhaustively and powerfully presents the Indian philosophy of Desire, and give a befitting response to those scholars who said Indian philosophy is other worldly... In the Kāma Gīta, Kāma appears and speaks in the first-person, daunting his power and the potential to transform ... once again the tag line is ... the only way you can understand (or even transmute) desire is to be aware of it ... and aware of its contours and place too.

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... Let me take you to the timeless epic of the Mahaabhaaratha.The Mahaabhaaratha. is not just a story of war —it is a vast ocean of human dilemmas, dharma, ...

02/06/2025

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In classical Greek philosophy, Eros - commonly translated as desire - occupies a central and contested position.

For Plato, particularly in the Symposium and Phaedrus, desire is neither reducible to mere appetite nor to irrational impulse. Rather, it is conceived as a formative energy within the soul - a teleological movement directed toward the Beautiful and the Good.

Far from being a hindrance to philosophical inquiry, desire becomes its condition: the initial impulse that draws the soul upward, from sensory attraction to the realm of intelligible forms.

In this reconstructed dialogue, we engage a fictionalized moment between Plato and one of his students, where the philosophical significance of Eros unfolds - not as a distraction from reason, but as its ally in the pursuit of metaphysical truth.

Consciousness Conversations by Sangeetha MenonIn classical Greek philosophy, eros — commonly translated as desire — occupies a central and contested position...

31/05/2025

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Isn’t the Self which you, I, we, and they carry a riddle and a witty spoof that laugh at our own comic selves?

We pretty much do not know what the self is.

Because we think our self is not something which we can talk about in an extraneous manner. It is a private matter, and not even known to the owner.

It is so much of me! How can I talk about it?

Watch for more on this topic in "Consciousness Conversations"

Consciousness Conversations by Sangeetha MenonIsn’t the Self which you, I, we, and they carry a riddle and a witty spoof that laugh at our own comic selves?W...

25/05/2025

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Watch "Consciousness Conversations" anchored by my digital twin 😃
- Can Consciousness be Downloaded to a Computer ?
Inspired by the movie "Transcendence"

Consciousness Conversations by Sangeetha MenonExplore the thought-provoking themes of love, identity, and consciousness in the Sci-Fi film "Transcendence," a...