Why Is There I Rather Than It?: Ontology of the Subject in the Upaniṣads

ISBN-13: 9783631838792 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 286 str.

Rafal Szklarski;Marta Bregiel-Pant;Marta Kudelska

Opis

The book explores one of the most important problems in Indian philosophical thought: the subject in its particular relation to the world. In what sense does the subject exist? How does it constitute the world? The analysis hinges on Sanskrit sources, mainly the Upanisads. However, it goes beyond the question of the subject. The author presents her concept of how the subject establishes the world, which - in this cognitive perspective - becomes simultaneously recognised and deformed. Overcoming these deformations becomes a specific soteriological path.

Spis treści

sat - sufficient reason - Advaita Vedanta - subject constituting the world - Mandukya Karika - luminous reality - erroneous perception

O autorze

Marta Kudelska is a professor of philosophy and translator of Sanskrit philosophical texts. Her research interests revolve around fundamental metaphysical questions posed since ancient times in the philosophical thought of India, particularly within the Brahmanical tradition. In her research, she also deals with interreligious and cross-cultural dialogue and the reception of classical thought in the formation of contemporary social and cultural attitudes.