Philosophy of Exclusion: Cognitive Contaminations

Abstract

This paper provides a condensed information about the various philosophical schools of thought that have provided epistemological, metaphysical ontological and axiological foundations of Indian philosophy which has unfortunately said to engineer certain general orientations toward a framework that was able to catalyze a way of life that outlined philosophy of exclusion. It is purported to state that certain elements of philosophical speculations and the resultant deviant attitudes to certain sections of people were considered to be pollutant had created an ideology of exclusion which was later sanctified by theological pundits. Hence, the present study is intended to trace the historical trajectory of the issue of untouchability and its implicit philosophy of exclusion by providing a epistemological framework of the systems of Indian philosophy and then pointing out where the contending theories of these systems tend to divide in terms of the issues of untouchability and exclusion.