Metaphysics
Indian Philosophy
Published on 15. October 2013
400 pages
978-1-135-70273-1 (ISBN)
Description
First Published in 2001. Part of the Indian Philosophy collection of readings, this volume focuses on Metaphysics. The complement to pramdna theory is prameya theory. Wherea s th e pramdnas are the means of knowledge, the prameyas are the knowables. cognizable entities which constitute the world. With respect to the number and kinds of such entities, there was a very wide variety of opinion among classical Indian philosophers. Moreover, since according to most Indian systems knowledge of reality is at least a necessary condition for liberation , these metaphysical disputes were taken to be of practical as well as theoretical import.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Professional and scholarly
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2,05 MB
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978-1-135-70273-1 (9781135702731)
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Series Editor- Roy W. Perrett, Massey University
Content
Ontological problems in ny?ya, buddhism and jainism a comparative analysis *; Ved?ntaparibh??? as systematic reconstruction; The nyay?-vai?e?ika theory of universals; Review article more things in heaven and earth; Negative Facts and Knowledge of Negative Facts *; Mereological considerations in vasubandhu's "proof of idealism" *; Causality in the Ny?ya-Vai?e?ika school; An ontology of concbete connectors 1; Dependent arising and the emptiness of emptiness: why did n?c?rjuna start with causation?; Freedom and Determinism from an Indian Perspective *; Reductionist and nonreductionist theories of persons in indian buddhist philosophy; Self-construction in buddhism; Buddhist reductionism; The M?m??s? theory of self-recognition; I Touch What I Saw; Deh?tmav?da or the body as soul; An eccentric ghost in the machine: Formal and quantitative aspects of the S?? khya-Yoga dualism; Mind/Consciousness Dualism in S??khya-Yoga Philosophy *; The Self in Advaita Ved?nta *; The Concept Of The Absolute And Its Alternative Forms
