Assignment:
Explain, in your own words, what the Upanishads means by the doctrine "Atman is Braham". What implications does this doctrine have for philosophical questions concerning metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics? In your answer be sure to include stating the implications the doctrine has for traditional problems in personal identity theory.
Describe the details of the chariot analogy put forth in the Katha Upanishad. Specifically, state what each part of the chariot is said to represent in human existence. Summarize Nachiketa's answer to Yama regarding why the life of sense pleasures is not preferable to the life of being a true seeker of knowledge. What is it about this answer that leads Elizabeth Schlitz's article (Two Chariots: The Justificaation of the Best Life in The KATHA UPANISHAD AND PLATO'S PHAEDRUS) to call it an "internalist" (chiefly Philosophy)account?