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Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics An Outline of Indian Non-Realism
By Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Copyright 2002
288 Pages
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Routledge
286 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'. This is the view that an independent, external world... Read more
Introduction Section I: Sankara: Externality 1. Sankara and the philosophical framework of Advaita 2. Sankara, Vasubandhu and the idealist use of dreaming 3. Sankara, dreaming and non-realism Section II: Vacaspati: Determinacy 1. Vacaspati on anirvacaniyatva Section III: Sri Harsa: Existence 1. Knowledge and Existence 2. The non-realist critique of Existence Discursive Appendix: Reading Sri Harsa through 20th century anti-sceptical naturalism Section IV: Applying Non-Realism 1. Causal connections, cognition and regularity: comparativist remarks on David Hume and Sri Harsa 2. Immediacy and the direct theory of perception: problems with Sri Harsa
Biography
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
'The credit goes to Chakrabarthi Ram-Prasad to have been able to produce a full-length book on Advaita Vedanta written in a thoroughly analytical style that transcends geographical barriers in philosophy.' - Philosophy East and West
