Philosophy in Classical India: An Introduction and Analysis

Type

Book

Authors

Ganeri, Jonardon

ISBN 10

0415240352

ISBN 13

9780415240352

Tags

Religion & Spirituality, Indian, Religious, Philosophy, Religious Studies

Abstract

1. motive and method of rational inquiry -- 1.1. Early recognition of a 'practice of reason' -- 1.2. Rationality in the Nyayasutra -- 1.3. Rationality and the ends of life -- 1.4. Perception -- 1.5. Mind, attention and the soul -- 1.6. Rationality and extrapolation -- 1.7. Rationality and debate -- 1.8. Reason, scripture and testimony -- 1.9. Reason's checks and balances -- 2. Rationality, emptiness and the objective view -- 2.1. Thought and reality -- 2.2. Emptiness and the objective view -- 2.3. Rationality in Madhyamaka -- 2.4. On causation -- 2.5. impossibility of proof -- 2.6. new paradox of motion -- 2.7. Self-refutation -- 3. rational basis of metaphysics -- 3.1. Order in nature -- 3.2. categorial hierarchy -- 3.3. structure of the world -- 3.4. taxonomy of natural kinds -- 3.5. Absence as a type of entity -- 3.6. Higher-order absence -- 3.7.

6.5. new doxastic ascent -- 6.6. Epistemic equilibrium.

Description

vi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Biblio Notes

54833878

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