Philosophy in Classical India: An Introduction and Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780415240352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 216 str.

Jonardon Ganeri

Opis

Bringing the analytical approach of modern philosophy to bear upon the literature of ancient and classical India, this work explains and explores the central methods, concepts and devices of the Indian philosophical tradition. It focuses on the rational principles of Indian philosophical theory, rather than the mysticism more usually associated with it. Ganeri asks what are the philosophical projects of a number of major Indian philosophers and what are the methods of rational inquiry deployed in pursuit of those projects. In so doing, he illuminates a network of mutual reference and criticism, influence and response, in which reason is simultaneously used constructively and to call itself into question. This fresh perspective on classical Indian thought unravels new philosophical paradigms and points towards new applications for the concept of reason.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1 The motive and method of rational inquiry, 2 Rationality, emptiness and the objective view, 3 The rational basis of metaphysics, 4 Reduction, exclusion and rational reconstruction, 5 Rationality, harmony and perspective, 6 Reason in equilibrium, Further reading, Notes, Texts, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Jonardon Ganeri read mathematics at Cambridge before pursuing graduate studies in philosophy at London and Oxford. He is the author of Semantic Powers: Meaning and the Means of Knowing in Classical Indian Philosophy 0Clarendon Press, 1999). He is currently Spalding Fellow in Comparative Religions, Clare Hall, Cambridge