Indian and Intercultural Philosophy: Personhood, Consciousness, and Causality

ISBN-13: 9781350253995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 240 str.

Douglas L. Berger; Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach

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Introduction PART I: CLASSICAL BRAHMINICAL THOUGHT 1. Shedding Light on the Matter: Sankara’s Dualistic Atman 2. The Abode of Recognition: Memory and the Continuity of Selfhood in Classical Nyaya Thought. 3. How Do We Sense? Buddhist and Nyaya Theories of Imagination PART II: CLASSICAL BUDDHIST THOUGHT 4. What Kind of a Designation is ‘Emptiness?’ Reconsidering Nagarjuna’s MMK 24:18 5. The Social Meaning of the Middle Way: B.S. Yadav and the Madhyamika Critique of Indian Ontologies of Identity and Difference 6. Justice, Deconstruction and Aporia in Nagarjuna’s Empty Ethics PART III: INDIAN PHILOSOPHY IN INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES 7. Early Brahminical and Confucian Ideas of Duty 8. Indian and Chinese Conceptions of Luminous Awareness 9. The Unlikely Commentator: The Hermeneutic Reception of Sankara’s Thought in the Interpretive Scholarship of Dara Shukoh 10. The Pivot of Nihilism: How Nietzsche Mis-Evaluates Early Buddhist Thought Bibliography Index