Theory of Value : Indian Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780815336129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 344 str.

Roy W. Perrett

Opis

This volume is concerned with Indian discussions in the areas of ethics, politics and aesthetics. The Indian philosophers had a good deal to say about the theory of value as they vigorously discussed topics like the ends of life and the relation of virtuous action to those ends. A traditional Hindu classification recognizes four classes of values: dharma (mortality, virtue), artha (wealth, power), kama (pleasure) and moska (liberation). Moska is usually held to be the highest value and is extensively discussed in the paradigm Indian philosophical texts. Indian political and legal theory is concerned with the values of artha and dharma. Aesthetic pleasure is one of the subject matters of a developed body of writing on aesthetic theory. Kasa (flavour), the special feeling or enjoyment that pervades an artwork or is aroused in its contemplation, is commonly seen as detatched from the aims and concerns of ordinary life, with some even suggesting that it provides a foretaste of the bliss of moksa.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 PHILOSOPHY OF VALUES; Chapter 2 The myth of the puru??rthas, DayaKrishna; Chapter 3 Dharma and Moksa, J. A. B.Van Buitenen; Chapter 4 Dharma and Moksa, Daniel H. H.Ingalls; Chapter 5 Dharma and Mok?a from a Conversational Point of View, Karl H.Potter; Chapter 6 THE CONCEPT OF MOK?A; Chapter 7 Is liberation (mok?a) pleasant?, A.Chakrabarti; Chapter 8 AUTHORITY AND LAW IN ANCIENT INDIA, DANIEL H. H.INGALLS; Chapter 9 THE HINDU PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY, BUDDHAPRAKASH; Chapter 10 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF KUMARIL?'S PHILOSOPHY, JohnTaber; Chapter 11 Theory of Non-violence; Chapter 12 THE SUPRA-MORAL IN RELIGIOUS ETHICS: THE CASE OF BUDDHISM, Joel J.Kupperman; Chapter 13 EGOISM, ALTRUISM AND INTENTIONALISM IN BUDDHIST ETHICS, Roy W.Perrett; Chapter 14 Indian Aesthetics—1; Chapter 15 Art Experience—2; Chapter 16 THE CONCEPT OF RASA; Chapter 17 RASA: POETRY AND THE EMOTIONS; Chapter 18 ABHINAVAGUPTA'S AESTHETICS AS A SPECULATIVE PARADIGM, EDWINGEROW, REEDCOLLEGE; Chapter 19 CATHARSIS IN THE LIGHT OF INDIAN AESTHETICS; Chapter 20 THE AESTHETICS OF INDIAN MUSIC, A. A.Bake; Chapter 21 METAPHORS OF INDIAN ART, KapilaVatsyayan;

O autorze

Roy W. Perrett Massey University