This book examines psycho-physical dualism as developed by the
Nyaya school of Indian philosophy. Dualism is important to many
world religions which promote personal immortality and to morality
which promotes free will. For the Nyaya, the self is a permanent,
immaterial substance to which non-physical internal states like
cognition belong. This view is challenged by other Indian schools,
especially the Buddhist and Carvaka schools.
Chakrabarti brings out the connections between the Indian and
the Western debates over the mind-body problem and shows that the
Nyaya position is well developed, well articulated, and defensible.
He shows that Nyaya dualism differs from Cartesian dualism and is
not vulnerable to some traditional objections against the latter. A
brief discussion of the Samkhya and the Advaita theories of the
self and the critique of these views from the Nyaya standpoint are
included, as well as a discussion of a classical Nyaya causal
argument for the existence of God.
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