Indian Philosophy
An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 31. Juli 2019
288 Seiten
978-1-4744-6989-0 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Richard King provides an introduction to the main schools of Hindu and Buddhist thought, emphasising the living history of interaction and debate between the various traditions.
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 India and the History of Philosophy
- Defining the Subject-Matter
- Histories of Western Philosophy
- Secular Reason and the Dichotomy of Tradition vs. Modernity
- Indian Materialism - A Counter-Example
- 2 Can Philosophy be Indian?
- Is There 'Philosophy' in Ancient India?
- Why Consider 'Indian Philosophy'?
- 3 The Varieties of Hindu Philosophy
- The Origins and Nature of Hindu Philosophy
- Bhart?hari and the Philosophy of Linguistic Analysis (Vyakara?a)
- The Varieties of Hindu Philosophy
- The Prior Exegesis School (Purva Mima?sa)
- The Latet Exegesis (Uttara Mima?sa) or 'End of the Vedas' (Vedanta) School
- The Particularist School (Vaise?ika)
- The School of Reasoning (Nyaya)
- The School of Enumeration (Sa?khya)
- The Classical Yoga School
- 4 Buddhist Philosophy in India
- Buddhism in India
- The Doctrinal Foundations of Buddhist Philosophy
- The Buddhist Philosophy of No-Abiding-Self (anatman)
- Mainstrean Buddhist Philosophy (Abhidharma)
- Mahayana Buddhism in India
- 5 Ontology: What really exists?
- Vaise?ika: Classifying Reality
- Reality as Process: The Abhidharma Response
- Rejecting Ontology: The Mahayana Philosophy of Emptiness
- 6 Epistemology: How do we know what we know?
- The Foundations of Knowledge (Prama?a)
- Inference (anumana) and the Nyaya School
- Emptiness and Nagarjuna's Critique of Prama?a Theory
- 7 Perception: Do we see things as they are?
- The Nature of Perception
- Perception in Advaita Vedanta: Reconciling the Everyday World and Monism
- The Image Theory of Perception (Sakara-Jñana-vada)
- 8 Consciousness and the Body: What are we?
- The Dualism of the Sa?khya School
- The Sa?khya Philosophy of Isvarak???a
- The Yoga System of Patañjali
- 9 Creation and Causality: Where do we come from?
- Myth and History
- Ancient Indian Cosmogonies
- Creation and Causality in Buddhism
- God and Causality in Nyaya-Vaise?ka
- Causal Theory in Sa?khya and Yoga
- The Early Vendanta of the Brahma Sutra
- Sa?kara and the Philosophy of Non-Dualism (Advaita Vendanta)
- Causal Theory in Advaita
- Ramanuja and Non-Dualism of the Qualified (Visi??advaita Vendanta)
- 10 Philosophy in a Post-Colonial World
- Postmodernism, Ethnocentricity and Western Philosophy
- The Politics of Translation
- Struck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Entering the Western Philosophical Arena
- Conclusion
- Biblography of Cited Works
- Index and Glossary of Important Sanskrit Terms
