ABSTRACT
The philosophies that flourished on the Indian subcontinent characteristically drew a firm distinction between the true self and the self that – prior to our liberation from rebirth – we routinely take to be the subject of our lives. Here we consider a sampling of the views supported at one time or another by one dars´ana or another. We begin with the answer given by the Ca-rva-kas to the question ‘what is the self?’.
