Masters Thesis

Post-modernity: the genesis of the hollowed individual

This thesis seeks to interpret and examine the philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian philosopher, Jiddu Krishnamurti as it relates to his ideas on the possibility of self-transformation and freedom in order that one may live a life that is free from internal and external conflict resulting in what Krishnamurti terms "psychological freedom" and "choiceless awareness". Self-transformation, for Krishnamurti, is the absolute revolution of the inner psychological, intellectual, and emotional devices used to live and interact with the world in which the individual lives. It is a turning around and away from the mechanistic responses conditioned, created, and maintained by the societal, cultural, traditional, and historical components of life as it is lived by the individual within society. The process of transformation does not happen in progressive stages, rather it is one movement defined by a shift in perspective.

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