Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics : An Outline of Indian Non-Realism

ISBN-13: 9780700716043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 288 str.

Chakravarthi RAM-Prasad; C. Ram-Prasad;Ram-Prasad Chak

Opis

Based on translations of passages from three major thinkers of the Indian school of Advaita, but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and contemporary philosophers, this work argues for a philosophical position it call non-realism.

Recenzje

'The credit goes to Chakrabarthi Ram-Prasad to have been able to produce a full-length book on Advaita Vedanta written in a thoroughly analytical style that transcends geographical barriers in philosophy.' - Philosophy East and West 

Spis treści

?a?kara: Externality; Chapter 1 ?a?kara and the Philosophical Framework of Advaita; Chapter 2 ?a?kara, Vasubandhu and the Idealist use of Dreaming; Chapter 3 ?a?kara, Dreaming and Non-Realism; V?Caspati: Determinacy; Chapter 4 V?caspati on Anirvacan?yatva; ?r? Har?a: Existence; Chapter 5 Knowledge and Existence; Chapter 6 The Non-Realist Critique of Existence; Applying Non-Realism; Chapter 7 Causal Connections, Cognition and Regularity; Chapter 8 Immediacy and the Direct Theory of Perception;

O autorze

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad