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Knowledge and liberation in classical Indian thought / Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad.
Author
Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Description
x, 259 pages ; 23 cm.
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B131 .R349 2001
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Philosophy, Indic
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Series
Library of philosophy and religion (Palgrave (Firm))
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Library of philosophy and religion
Summary note
"Classical Indian schools of philosophy undertake inquiry with the formal aim of attaining some supreme end to existenceliberation from the cycle of lives. This book looks at four conceptions of liberation and the way analytic inquiry and philosophical knowledge are held to lead in its attainment. The brahminical (or Hindu) schools of Mimamsa, Nyaya and Advaita Vedanta, and the Buddhist Yogacara (and Yogacara Madhyamika) are studied. Although they agree that inquiry and knowledge play a role in its attainment, they differ on the significance of knowledge, the manner in which liberation is attained and its content. The notion of liberation, which is generally recognised as vital to Indian religious culture, and rigorous philosophical activity, which is not as generally recognised, are systematically dealt with and their interrelationship is shown. The study proceeds through exegesis of original translations especially relevant since several new interpretations of both liberation and philosophical doctrines are offered."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-253) and index.
Contents
Bhatta Mimamsa: Action, the Sacred Texts and the End of Action
The sacred text and its relation to reality
Mimamsa reality
The self and the unliberated state
The modest role of knowledge
Action and the attainment of liberation
The content of liberation
Nyaya: Suffering, Detachment and Peace
Self and world
Liberation
Philosophical inquiry and practice
The place of theism in Nyaya
Yogacara-Madhyamika: Conceptualisation, Insight and Pure Cognition
The nature of the unliberated life
The results of analysis: the denial of externality and the rejection of the self
Intellectual practice for the attainment of liberation
Advaita Vedanta: Radical Misunderstanding and the De-individuation of Consciousness
The philosophical framework
The unliberated life
The receptive attitude and the critical mind: approaches to liberation
Self-realisation and figurative liberation
God in Advaita: a concluding remark.
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ISBN
0333927478
9780333927472
0333699963 ((SERIES))
9780333699966 ((SERIES))
LCCN
00048345
OCLC
46907551
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