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This book presents a collection of essays, setting out both the
special concern of classical Indian thought and some of its
potential contributions to global philosophy. It presents a number
of key arguments made by different schools about this special
concern: the way in which attainment of knowledge of reality
transforms human nature in a fundamentally liberating way. It also
looks in detail at two areas in contemporary global philosophy -
the ethics of difference, and the metaphysics of consciousness -
where this classical Indian commitment to the spiritually
transformative power of knowledge can lead to critical insights,
even for those who do not share its presuppositions. Close reading
of technical Indian texts is combined with wide-ranging and often
comparative analysis of philosophical issues to derive original
arguments from the Indian material through an analytic method that
is seldom mastered by philosophers of non-western traditions.
Dialogue is a recurring and significant component of Indian
religious and philosophical literature. Whether it be as a
narrative account of a conversation between characters within a
text, as an implied response or provocation towards an interlocutor
outside the text, or as a hermeneutical lens through which
commentators and modern audiences can engage with an ancient text,
dialogue features prominently in many of the most foundational
sources from classical India. Despite its ubiquity, there are very
few studies that explore this important facet of Indian texts. This
book redresses this imbalance by undertaking a close textual
analysis of a range of religious and philosophical literature to
highlight the many uses and functions of dialogue in the sources
themselves and in subsequent interpretations. Using the themes of
encounter, transformation and interpretation - all of which emerged
from face-to-face discussions between the contributors of this
volume - each chapter explores dialogue in its own context, thereby
demonstrating the variety and pervasiveness of dialogue in
different genres of the textual tradition. This is a rich and
detailed study that offers a fresh and timely perspective on many
of the most well-known and influential sources from classical
India. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of religious
studies, Asian studies, comparative literature and literary theory.
Dialogue is a recurring and significant component of Indian
religious and philosophical literature. Whether it be as a
narrative account of a conversation between characters within a
text, as an implied response or provocation towards an interlocutor
outside the text, or as a hermeneutical lens through which
commentators and modern audiences can engage with an ancient text,
dialogue features prominently in many of the most foundational
sources from classical India. Despite its ubiquity, there are very
few studies that explore this important facet of Indian texts. This
book redresses this imbalance by undertaking a close textual
analysis of a range of religious and philosophical literature to
highlight the many uses and functions of dialogue in the sources
themselves and in subsequent interpretations. Using the themes of
encounter, transformation and interpretation - all of which emerged
from face-to-face discussions between the contributors of this
volume - each chapter explores dialogue in its own context, thereby
demonstrating the variety and pervasiveness of dialogue in
different genres of the textual tradition. This is a rich and
detailed study that offers a fresh and timely perspective on many
of the most well-known and influential sources from classical
India. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of religious
studies, Asian studies, comparative literature and literary theory.
The debates between various Buddhist and Hindu philosophical
systems about the existence, definition and nature of self, occupy
a central place in the history of Indian philosophy and religion.
These debates concern various issues: what 'self' means, whether
the self can be said to exist at all, arguments that can
substantiate any position on this question, how the ordinary
reality of individual persons can be explained, and the
consequences of each position. At a time when comparable issues are
at the forefront of contemporary Western philosophy, in both
analytic and continental traditions (as well as in their
interaction), these classical and medieval Indian debates widen and
globalise such discussions. This book brings to a wider audience
the sophisticated range of positions held by various systems of
thought in classical India.
Based on original translations of passages from the works of three
major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara,
Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes,
Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic
philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it
calls 'non-realism'. This is the view that an independent, external
world must be assumed if the features of cognition are to be
explained, but that it cannot be proved that there is such a world,
independently of an appeal to cognition itself. This position is
constructed against idealist denials of externality, realist
arguments for an independent world and the sceptical denial of the
coherence of cognition.
The debates between various Buddhist and Hindu philosophical
systems about the existence, definition and nature of self, occupy
a central place in the history of Indian philosophy and religion.
These debates concern various issues: what 'self' means, whether
the self can be said to exist at all, arguments that can
substantiate any position on this question, how the ordinary
reality of individual persons can be explained, and the
consequences of each position. At a time when comparable issues are
at the forefront of contemporary Western philosophy, in both
analytic and continental traditions (as well as in their
interaction), these classical and medieval Indian debates widen and
globalise such discussions. This book brings to a wider audience
the sophisticated range of positions held by various systems of
thought in classical India.
This book presents a collection of essays, setting out both the
special concern of classical Indian thought and some of its
potential contributions to global philosophy. It presents some key
arguments made by different schools about this special concern: the
way in which attainment of knowledge of reality transforms human
nature in a fundamentally liberating way. It then goes on to look
in detail at two areas in contemporary global philosophy - the
ethics of difference, and the metaphysics of consciousness - where
this classical Indian commitment to the spiritually transformative
power of knowledge can lead to critical insights, even for those
who do not share its presuppositions. Close reading of technical
Indian texts is combined with wide-ranging and often comparative
analysis of philosophical issues, to derive original arguments from
the Indian material through an analytic method that is seldom
mastered by philosophers of non-western traditions.
Contents: Introduction Section I: Sankara: Externality 1. Sankara and the philosophical framework of Advaita 2. Sankara, Vasubandhu and the idealist use of dreaming 3. Sankara, dreaming and non-realism Section II: Vacaspati: Determinacy 1. Vacaspati on anirvacaniyatva Section III: Sri Harsa: Existence 1. Knowledge and Existence 2. The non-realist critique of Existence Discursive Appendix: Reading Sri Harsa through 20th century anti-sceptical naturalism Section IV: Applying Non-Realism 1. Causal connections, cognition and regularity: comparativist remarks on David Hume and Sri Harsa 2. Immediacy and the direct theory of perception: problems with Sri Harsa
Drawing on a rich variety of premodern Indian texts across multiple
traditions, genres, and languages, this collection explores how
emotional experience is framed, evoked, and theorized in order to
offer compelling insights into human subjectivity. Rather than
approaching emotion through the prism of Western theory, a team of
leading scholars of Indian traditions showcases the literary
texture, philosophical reflections, and theoretical paradigms that
classical Indian sources provide in their own right. The focus is
on how the texts themselves approach those dimensions of the human
condition we may intuitively think of as being about emotion,
without pre-judging what that might be. The result is a collection
that reveals the range and diversity of phenomena that benefit from
being gathered under the formal term "emotion", but which in fact
open up what such theorisation, representation, and expression
might contribute to a cross-cultural understanding of this term. In
doing so, these chapters contribute to a cosmopolitan, comparative,
and pluralistic conception of human experience. Adopting a broad
phenomenological methodology, this handbook reframes debates on
emotion within classical Indian thought and is an invaluable
resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the
field beyond the Western tradition.
Drawing on a rich variety of premodern Indian texts across multiple
traditions, genres, and languages, this collection explores how
emotional experience is framed, evoked, and theorized in order to
offer compelling insights into human subjectivity. Rather than
approaching emotion through the prism of Western theory, a team of
leading scholars of Indian traditions showcases the literary
texture, philosophical reflections, and theoretical paradigms that
classical Indian sources provide in their own right. The focus is
on how the texts themselves approach those dimensions of the human
condition we may intuitively think of as being about emotion,
without pre-judging what that might be. The result is a collection
that reveals the range and diversity of phenomena that benefit from
being gathered under the formal term “emotion”, but which in
fact open up what such theorisation, representation, and expression
might contribute to a cross-cultural understanding of this term. In
doing so, these chapters contribute to a cosmopolitan, comparative,
and pluralistic conception of human experience. Adopting a broad
phenomenological methodology, this handbook reframes debates on
emotion within classical Indian thought and is an invaluable
resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the
field beyond the Western tradition.
Winner of the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies Prize
(2013/2014) from the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. The Gita
is a central text in Hindu traditions, and commentaries on it
express a range of philosophical-theological positions. Two of the
most significant commentaries are by Sankara, the founder of the
Advaita or Non-Dualist system of Vedic thought and by Ramanuja, the
founder of the Visistadvaita or Qualified Non-Dualist system. Their
commentaries offer rich resources for the conceptualization and
understanding of divine reality, the human self, being, the
relationship between God and human, and the moral psychology of
action and devotion. This book approaches their commentaries
through a study of the interaction between the abstract atman
(self) and the richer conception of the human person. While closely
reading the Sanskrit commentaries, Ram-Prasad develops
reconstructions of each philosophical-theological system, drawing
relevant and illuminating comparisons with contemporary Christian
theology and Western philosophy.
Winner of the Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies Prize
(2013/2014) from the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies. The Gita
is a central text in Hindu traditions, and commentaries on it
express a range of philosophical-theological positions. Two of the
most significant commentaries are by Sankara, the founder of the
Advaita or Non-Dualist system of Vedic thought and by Ramanuja, the
founder of the Visistadvaita or Qualified Non-Dualist system. Their
commentaries offer rich resources for the conceptualization and
understanding of divine reality, the human self, being, the
relationship between God and human, and the moral psychology of
action and devotion. This book approaches their commentaries
through a study of the interaction between the abstract atman
(self) and the richer conception of the human person. While closely
reading the Sanskrit commentaries, Ram-Prasad develops
reconstructions of each philosophical-theological system, drawing
relevant and illuminating comparisons with contemporary Christian
theology and Western philosophy.
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