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-	'''Hindu philosophy''' is divided into six [[nastika]] ("orthodox") schools of thought, or ''darshanas'' (literally, "views"), which accept the [[Vedas]] as supreme revealed scriptures. The other three [[nastika]] ("heterodox") schools, which do not accept the Vedas as supreme do not form part of Hindu philosophy. The {{IAST|āstika}} schools are:	+
-	#[[Sankhya]], a strongly [[dualist]] theoretical exposition of mind and matter.	+
-	#[[Raja Yoga|Yoga]], a school emphasizing [[meditation]] closely based on Sankhya	+
-	#[[Nyaya]] or [[Indian logics|logics]]	+
-	#[[Vaisheshika]], an [[empiricist]] school of [[atomism]]	+
-	#[[Mimamsa]], an anti-ascetic and anti-mysticist school of [[orthopraxy]]	+
-	#[[Vedanta]], opposing Vedic ritualism in favour of [[mysticism]]. Vedanta came to be the dominant current of [[Hinduism]] in the post-medieval period.	+
-	The {{IAST|nāstika}} schools are:	+
-	#[[Buddhism]]	+
-	#[[Jainism]]	+
-	#[[Cārvāka]], a [[skeptical]] [[materialist]] school, which died out in the 15th century and whose primary texts have been lost.	+
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-	In [[History of Hinduism|Hindu history]], the distinction of these six schools was current in the [[Gupta period]] "golden age" of Hinduism. With the disappearance of Vaishshika and Mimamsa, it was obsolete by the later Middle Ages, when the various sub-schools of Vedanta ([[Dvaita]] "dualism", [[Advaita]] "non-dualism" and others) began to rise to prominence as the main divisions of religious philosophy. Nyaya survived into the 17th century as ''Navya Nyaya'' "Neo-Nyaya", while Sankhya gradually lost its status as an independent school, its tenets absorbed into Yoga and Vedanta.	+
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