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9780754654568

Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge: Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology

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    9780754654568

  • ISBN10:

    0754654567

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-07-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This book presents a collection of essays, setting out both the special concern of classical Indian thought and some of its potential contributions to global philosophy. It presents some key arguments made by different schools about this special concern: the way in which attainment of knowledge of reality transforms human nature in a fundamentally liberating way. It then goes on to look in detail at two areas in contemporary global philosophy - the ethics of difference, and the metaphysics of consciousness - where this classical Indian commitment to the spiritually transformative power of knowledge can lead to critical insights, even for those who do not share its presuppositions. Close reading of technical Indian texts is combined with wide-ranging and often comparative analysis of philosophical issues, to derive original arguments from the Indian material through an analytic method that is seldom mastered by philosophers of non-western traditions.

Author Biography

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Multiplist metaphysics and ethics
Consciousness and luminosity: on how knowledge is possible
Knowledge and action: how to attain the highest good
Liberation without annihilation: Parthasarathi Misra on jnanasakti
Conceptuality in question: teaching and pure cognition in Yogacara-Madhyamaka
Bibliography
Index
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