Quietism, Agnosticism and Mysticism: Mapping the Philosophical Discourse of the East and the West

ISBN-13: 9789811632228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 217 str.

Krishna Mani Pathak

Spis treści

PART I: The Quietist Thinking

1. What is Philosophical Quietism (Wittgensteinian and otherwise)?

Thomas J. Spiegel

2. Silence as a Therapeutic Device: A Case for Śūnyavāda as Philosophical Quietism

Ajay Verma

3. Rationalistic Value Realism as a Religion without God: An Option for Metaethical Quietism

Stelios Virvidakis

4. Does the Ineffability of Brahman lead to Quietism? Śaṅkara on the Indispensability of

Language

Vedika Mati Hurdoyal-Chekhori

PART II: The Agnostic Mind

5. Sañjaya’s ajñanavāda and Mahāvīra’s anekāntavāda: From Agnosticism to Pluralism

Anish Chakravarty

6. Agnosticism, Atheism and Naturalism’s Imaginaire: A Defense of God and Religion

Peter Feldmeier

7. Mystical Theistic Ineffability and Agnosticism

Jerome Gellman

8. An Agnostic Deconstruction of Mysticism and the Philosophical Value of its Truth Claims

Christine M. Ratzlaff

PART III: The Mystic’s World

9. Plotinus and Godlike Virtues

Stephen R. L. Clark

10. Connection between Faith and Reason in Religious Mysticism

Mansi Handa

11. Mysticism of Experience, Faith in Communication: Nietzsche and Kierkegaard

Ole Höffken

12. Encoded Language as Mystical Revelation Among the Bāuls of West Bengal

Jarrod Hyam

13. The Cosmic World, the Mystical Mind and the Vedic Concept of Origination

Krishna Mani Pathak

O autorze

Krishna Mani Pathak (PhD, Heidelberg) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hindu College, University of Delhi, India. He has worked as lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany and as Visiting Professor at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius. He is an active member of the American Philosophical Association and is currently serving as member of its Committee for International Cooperation for a three years term. He is also on the editorial board of the Acorn Journal, USA. He is a founding life member of the Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Society (LWPS) of India. His publications cover a range of topics from theoretical to comparative philosophy to applied philosophy. His recent publications have appeared in the series of Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Springer’s Schopenhauer on Self, World and Morality, Sage Open, Journal of Human Values, Tulsi Prajñā, Asia Journal of Global Studies, International Journal of Applied Ethics and WCP proceedings. He has also been external assessor for grant applications of SSHRC, Canada and article editor for Sage Publications

Blurb

This book presents a unique collection of papers on various philosophical aspects of the unknown and unvoiced truth and reality of the cosmic world. It offers a systematic analysis of the three philosophical theories of Quietism, Agnosticism and Mysticism and introduces readers to the fundamentals of mystical knowledge claimed by philosophical schools of the east and the west. It discusses, debates and deliberates on philosophical issues concerning the acquisition of truth, its objectivity and its various dimensions along with the application of thoughts pertaining to Quietism, Agnosticism, and metaphysical-mystic traditions in philosophy. It examines and precisely defines the scope and limits of knowledge, the respective way of life, its expressions and morality, mystical revelation, ineffability of the ultimate, value realism, and faith and reason - with a primary focus on the classical Indian schools of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Agnosticism, the Bāuls, Greek traditions, modern western meta-philosophy, and contemporary quietist debate in religion and theology. This insightful collection should be of great interest to independent researchers, students and teachers of philosophy, theology, Mysticism and Agnosticism, cultural studies and religious studies.