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8 8.1 The approach of the physical Vaisesika

The first sources that we are on the Vaisesika Vaiśeṣikasūtra and the comment by Praśastapāda, said Vaiśeṣikabhāṣya. Already at the time of the composition of this, however, some of the aphorisms Vaiśeṣikasūtra would appear difficult to understand because they are not directly commented on. There is therefore a long history of poorly Vaisesika we access, but can be partially reconstructed back to Vaiśeṣikasūtra and rebuilding it from secondary sources that talk about it. That is why in what follows I will sometimes refer to a possible stage before the classic, which is the main focus of my presentation. According to the reconstruction of a famous historian of Indian philosophy, the Austrian Erich Frauwallner the Vaisesika collect very old philosophical elements. His beginnings precede the systematization and dissemination of Nyaya cheabbiamo called epistemological approach to nature. The Vaisesika old, then, is interessatoalla nature as a physical phenomenon and try to understand indipendentementedal role of the observer (as opposed, though for different reasons, the Nyaya and Sankhya). The classification of reality offered by Vaisesika can appear more "scientific" in the sense that is independent of the observer role of the subject and claims to describe the gap with its object. The key to this classification is the distinction in padārtha, or categories. These are, like Aristotle and unlike that in Kant, ontological categories that actually exist, albeit in a different way.