About the author:
"Friedrich Maximilian Müller (1823 - 1900) - German and English philologist, specialist in general linguistics, Indology, mythology.
The founder of comparative religion and mythology, an eminent linguist, expert on Indian texts, professor at Oxford University Max Muller was also the editor of a multivolume (more than 50 volumes) series called Sacred Books of the East, published from 1879 to 1894.
Mueller himself owns translations of the Upanishads, Jammapada, translations of Vedic hymns and Buddhist texts.
One of the later works of Müller, and today retains the significance of fundamental work in the field of Indian philosophy and religion - "Six Systems of Indian Philosophy" (1899), - reveals the history of the development of the totality of religious and philosophical teachings of India in the form of a consistently developing system, covering material from the most ancient period up to the classical philosophical schools (Vedanta, Mimamsa, Sankhya, Yoga, Nyaya and Vaisesika).
“Not without fear, in my declining years, I dare to present to my fellow workers and everyone interested in the development of the philosophical thinking of mankind, some of the remarks about the six systems of Indian philosophy that have accumulated in my notebooks over the years” ...
The audio version was prepared on the basis of P. Nikolaev's translation published in 1901 (Soldatenkov's edition, Moscow).
Reading - Mikhail Pozdnyakov.
