Indian philosophy and the consequences of knowledge: themes in ethics, metaphysics and soteriology
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Beteilige Person: Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Aldershot, England Ashgate Pub. ©2007
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Multiplist Metaphysics and Ethics; 2 Consciousness and Luminosity: On How Knowledge is Possible; 3 Knowledge and Action: On How to Attain the Highest Good; 4 Liberation without Annihilation: Parthasarathi Misra on Jnanasakti; 5 Conceptuality in Question: Teaching and Pure Cognition in Yogacara-Madhyamaka; Bibliography; Index
This book presents a collection of essays, setting out both the special concern of classical Indian thought and some of its potential contributions to global philosophy. It presents some key arguments made by different schools about this special concern: the way in which attainment of knowledge of reality transforms human nature in a fundamentally liberating way. It then goes on to look in detail at two areas in contemporary global philosophy - the ethics of difference, and the metaphysics of consciousness - where this classical Indian commitment to the spiritually transformative power of know
Umfang:xiv, 176 pages
ISBN:0754686760
9780754686767
0754654567
9780754654568