Matthew R. Dasti

Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-Sutra: A Guide

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Produktbeschreibung

This guide provides students and researchers with a distilled, accessible understanding of the major scholarly, historical, and philosophical issues that inform the V¿tsy¿yana's Commentary on the Ny¿ya-s¿tra while unpacking its philosophical content such that it speaks to modern readers. It also illustrates the way that the Commentary may serve as a lens to view the formative period of classical Indian philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Guides to Philosophy
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197625927
• ISBN-10: 0197625924
• Artikelnr.: 67523976

Autorenporträt

Matthew R. Dasti is Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University. His research focuses on the "orthodox" schools of classical Indian philosophy, especially early Nyaya and its theory of knowledge. He is co-author of God and the World's Arrangement: Readings from Vedanta and Nyaya Philosophy of Religion (2021) and The Ny¿ya-s¿tra: Selections with Early Commentaries (2017), and is the co-editor of Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface * Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Introduction * Principles of Selection, Organization, and Translation * Outline of the Text * Chapter 1 - The Central Topics of Nyaya * Chapter 2 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Language * Chapter 3 - Objects of Knowledge * Chapter 4 - Objects of Knowledge and the Knowledge that Leads to the Supreme Good * Chapter 5 - Dialectics * Appendix A - Thematic reading plans and recommended scholarship * Appendix B - V
tsy
yana's philosophical commitments summarized * Appendix C - Immediate inference, postulation, and contraposition: on V
tsy
yana's logical "error" * Works Cited * Index