A. Raghuramaraju
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195699364
- eISBN:
- 9780199080533
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195699364.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This volume explores three significant issues — absence, the consciousness of the contemporary, and new philosophical episteme — relevant to thought-systems in the Indian subcontinent. The author ...
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This volume explores three significant issues — absence, the consciousness of the contemporary, and new philosophical episteme — relevant to thought-systems in the Indian subcontinent. The author discusses the present lack of original philosophical discourse in the context of South Asia, especially India and investigates the reasons of such absences. It examines the reasons for decline in traditional philosophical schools and Sanskritic studies in the subcontinent. The book also discusses the manner in which Indian thinkers from the times of nineteenth century social reforms to the present day have interacted with the contemporary issues of philosophical engagement the world over. It also explores the relevance of classical texts and thought systems alongside contemporary philosophical consciousness. A major part of the discussion comprises of philosophical analysis of a new contemporary Indian text entitled, Desire and Liberation: The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology by Vaddera Chandidas.Less
This volume explores three significant issues — absence, the consciousness of the contemporary, and new philosophical episteme — relevant to thought-systems in the Indian subcontinent. The author discusses the present lack of original philosophical discourse in the context of South Asia, especially India and investigates the reasons of such absences. It examines the reasons for decline in traditional philosophical schools and Sanskritic studies in the subcontinent. The book also discusses the manner in which Indian thinkers from the times of nineteenth century social reforms to the present day have interacted with the contemporary issues of philosophical engagement the world over. It also explores the relevance of classical texts and thought systems alongside contemporary philosophical consciousness. A major part of the discussion comprises of philosophical analysis of a new contemporary Indian text entitled, Desire and Liberation: The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology by Vaddera Chandidas.
Dan Arnold
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231145473
- eISBN:
- 9780231518215
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231145473.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This book looks at first-millennium Indian arguments and contemporary debates on the philosophy of mind and shows that seemingly arcane arguments among first-millennium Indian thinkers can illuminate ...
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This book looks at first-millennium Indian arguments and contemporary debates on the philosophy of mind and shows that seemingly arcane arguments among first-millennium Indian thinkers can illuminate matters still very much at the heart of contemporary philosophy. It explains how pre-modern Buddhists are sometimes characterized as veritable “mind scientists” whose insights anticipated modern research on the brain and mind. It confronts a significant obstacle to popular attempts at harmonizing classical Buddhist and modern scientific thought: the fact that since most Indian Buddhists hold that the mental continuum is uninterrupted by death they disagree with the idea that everything about the mental can be explained in terms of brain events. It also shows that a predominant stream of Indian Buddhist thought, associated with the seventh-century thinker Dharmakīrti, turns out to be vulnerable to arguments that modern philosophers have levelled against physicalism. It explains that these issues center on what modern philosophers have called intentionality—the fact that the mind can be about (or represent or mean) other things. Tracing an account of intentionality through Kant, Wilfrid Sellars, and John McDowell, the book argues that intentionality cannot, in principle, be explained in causal terms. The book shows that despite his concern to refute physicalism, Dharmakīrti's causal explanations of the mental mean that modern arguments from intentionality cut as much against his project as they do against physicalist philosophies of mind.Less
This book looks at first-millennium Indian arguments and contemporary debates on the philosophy of mind and shows that seemingly arcane arguments among first-millennium Indian thinkers can illuminate matters still very much at the heart of contemporary philosophy. It explains how pre-modern Buddhists are sometimes characterized as veritable “mind scientists” whose insights anticipated modern research on the brain and mind. It confronts a significant obstacle to popular attempts at harmonizing classical Buddhist and modern scientific thought: the fact that since most Indian Buddhists hold that the mental continuum is uninterrupted by death they disagree with the idea that everything about the mental can be explained in terms of brain events. It also shows that a predominant stream of Indian Buddhist thought, associated with the seventh-century thinker Dharmakīrti, turns out to be vulnerable to arguments that modern philosophers have levelled against physicalism. It explains that these issues center on what modern philosophers have called intentionality—the fact that the mind can be about (or represent or mean) other things. Tracing an account of intentionality through Kant, Wilfrid Sellars, and John McDowell, the book argues that intentionality cannot, in principle, be explained in causal terms. The book shows that despite his concern to refute physicalism, Dharmakīrti's causal explanations of the mental mean that modern arguments from intentionality cut as much against his project as they do against physicalist philosophies of mind.
Loriliai Biernacki
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823253951
- eISBN:
- 9780823260980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823253951.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter examines the thought of Abhinavagupta, an Indian thinker and mystic in the Tantric tradition who lived from the latter part of the tenth to the middle of the eleventh century CE in ...
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This chapter examines the thought of Abhinavagupta, an Indian thinker and mystic in the Tantric tradition who lived from the latter part of the tenth to the middle of the eleventh century CE in Kashmir, India. It analyzes the interpenetration of the immanent and transcendent as an instantiation of the problem of the One and the Many in the cosmological mapping of consciousness that Abhinavagupta proposes. Particularly, it suggests that one finds the mode of interrelation between the transcendent and immanent expressed through a grammatico-theology. The grammatico-theology that Abhinavagupta offers gets to the heart of the problem of the one and the many because language is the very instantiation and genesis of the problem.Less
This chapter examines the thought of Abhinavagupta, an Indian thinker and mystic in the Tantric tradition who lived from the latter part of the tenth to the middle of the eleventh century CE in Kashmir, India. It analyzes the interpenetration of the immanent and transcendent as an instantiation of the problem of the One and the Many in the cosmological mapping of consciousness that Abhinavagupta proposes. Particularly, it suggests that one finds the mode of interrelation between the transcendent and immanent expressed through a grammatico-theology. The grammatico-theology that Abhinavagupta offers gets to the heart of the problem of the one and the many because language is the very instantiation and genesis of the problem.
Jonardon Ganeri
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199218745
- eISBN:
- 9780191809774
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199218745.003.0018
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This introductory chapter provides a background to significances of new philosophical ideas in 16th- and 17th-century India and discusses issues that constitute the essential foundations of the new ...
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This introductory chapter provides a background to significances of new philosophical ideas in 16th- and 17th-century India and discusses issues that constitute the essential foundations of the new philosophy, such as the possibility of systematic inquiry in the face of challenges from other sectors of the Hindu intellectual world. It describes how philosophy was embodied and offers a revised Skinnerian methodology for studying the philosophical literature of the period. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the substantive philosophical issues that the early modern Indian thinkers struggle with.Less
This introductory chapter provides a background to significances of new philosophical ideas in 16th- and 17th-century India and discusses issues that constitute the essential foundations of the new philosophy, such as the possibility of systematic inquiry in the face of challenges from other sectors of the Hindu intellectual world. It describes how philosophy was embodied and offers a revised Skinnerian methodology for studying the philosophical literature of the period. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the substantive philosophical issues that the early modern Indian thinkers struggle with.
