1st Edition

Indian Thought and Western Theism The Vedānta of Rāmānuja

By Martin Ganeri Copyright 2015
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

The encounter between the West and India in the modern period has also been an encounter between Western modernity and the traditions of classical Indian thought. This book is the study of one aspect this encounter, that between Western scholasticism and one classical Indian tradition of religious thought and practice: the Vedānta. In the modern period there have been many attempts to... Read more

Introduction. 1. Vedānta and Thomism 2. Methodology  3. The Ultimate Reality 4. The World 5. Rāmānuja and Modern Western Theism. Conclusion

Biography

Martin Ganeri is Vice Regent of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK. His recent publications include ‘Selfhood, Agency and Freewill in Rāmānuja’ in E. F. Bryant (ed.), Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy (2014), and ‘Natural Law and Hinduism’ in the Journal of Comparative Law (2014).