Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge
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Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge

Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology

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Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge

Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology

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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 a number of 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 also looks 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 knowledge can lead to critical insights, even for those who do not share its presuppositions. Close reading of technical Indian texts is combined with wide-ranging and often comparative analysis of philosophical issues to derive original arguments from the Indian material through an analytic method that is seldom mastered by philosophers of non-western traditions.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781317117421
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Multiplist Metaphysics and Ethics
  10. 2 Consciousness and Luminosity: On How Knowledge is Possible
  11. 3 Knowledge and Action: On How to Attain the Highest Good
  12. 4 Liberation without Annihilation: Pārthasārathi Miƛra on Jñānaƛakti
  13. 5 Conceptuality in Question: Teaching and Pure Cognition in Yogācāra-Madhyamaka
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index