Jiddu Krishnamurti
Insisted that freedom requires seeing conditioning directly rather than replacing one authority with another.
Life and thought
Questions authority, conditioning, fear, thought, education, freedom, and whether truth can belong to any organization.
Jiddu Krishnamurti is presented in the Thought archive through philosophy, indian / global, india / global, contemporary. The recorded life dates are 1895–1986. The profile connects this work to Education, Indian Thought, Psychology, Religion & Mysticism.
The central questions gathered here concern conditioning, freedom from authority, fear, attention, education. Together they show the recurring problems, methods, and distinctions that define this thinker’s contribution.
Jiddu Krishnamurti developed within an intellectual conversation shaped by Theosophy as background, Buddhist and Hindu contexts, modern crisis. These names provide context for the traditions and problems surrounding the work; they do not imply simple agreement.
The surviving reading path begins with Freedom from the Known, The First and Last Freedom, Commentaries on Living. The recorded legacy extends toward alternative education, spiritual inquiry, psychological reflection.
Five Defining Theories
The central ideas, methods, and arguments that give this thinker’s work its distinctive shape.
conditioning
A central idea in this thinker’s work, method, and intellectual legacy.
freedom from authority
A central idea in this thinker’s work, method, and intellectual legacy.
fear
A central idea in this thinker’s work, method, and intellectual legacy.
attention
A central idea in this thinker’s work, method, and intellectual legacy.
education
A central idea in this thinker’s work, method, and intellectual legacy.
Life journey
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Context
1895–1986 · India / Global · Contemporary
Intellectual formation
The recorded influences include Theosophy as background, Buddhist and Hindu contexts, modern crisis.
Defining ideas
The profile centres on conditioning, freedom from authority, fear, attention, education.
The work
A reading path through Freedom from the Known, The First and Last Freedom, Commentaries on Living.
Lasting influence
The recorded influence reaches alternative education, spiritual inquiry, psychological reflection.
In time
Major Works
Texts through which the thinker’s ideas entered the wider intellectual record.
Freedom from the Known
This work matters because it carries a central part of the thinker’s method, argument, or intellectual legacy into a form readers can examine directly.
The First and Last Freedom
This work matters because it carries a central part of the thinker’s method, argument, or intellectual legacy into a form readers can examine directly.
Commentaries on Living
This work matters because it carries a central part of the thinker’s method, argument, or intellectual legacy into a form readers can examine directly.
Influence network
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Selected quotations
Truth is a pathless land.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest intelligence.
Freedom is found in choiceless awareness.
The observer is the observed.
Schools of thought
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