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The Lost Age of Reason - Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700 (Hardcover, New)
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The Lost Age of Reason - Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700 (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Oxford History of Philosophy
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The Lost Age of Reason deals with a fascinating and rich episode in
the history of philosophy, one from which those who are interested
in the nature of modernity and its global origins have a great deal
to learn. Early modernity in India consists in the formation of a
new philosophical self, one which makes it possible meaningfully to
conceive of oneself as engaging the ancient and the alien in
conversation. The ancient texts are now not thought of as
authorities to which one must defer, but regarded as the source of
insight in the company of which one pursues the quest for truth.
This new attitude implies a change in the conception of one's
duties towards the past. After reconstructing the historical
intellectual context in detail, and developing a suitable
methodological framework, Ganeri reviews work on the concept of
knowledge, the nature of evidence, the self, the nature of the
categories, mathematics, realism, and a new language for
philosophy. A study of early modern philosophy in India has much to
teach us today - about the nature of modernity as such, about the
reform of educational institutions and its relationship to creative
research, and about cosmopolitan identities in circumstances of
globalisation.
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