Categorisation in Indian Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Thinking Inside the Box
Redaktion: Frazier, Jessica

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shedding light on the way in which Indian philosophical traditions crafted an elaborate picture of the world, this book brings Indian thinkers into dialogue with modern philosophy and global concerns. For those interested in philosophical traditions in general, this book will establish a foundation for further comparative perspectives on philosophy. For those concerned with the understanding of Indic culture, it will provide a platform for the continued renaissance of research into India's rich philosophical traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317169413
• Artikelnr.: 44876338

Autorenporträt

Jessica Frazier is a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent. She is the author of Reality, Religion and Passion: Indian and Western Approaches in Gadamer and Gosvami and author/editor of The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies, as well as the founding and managing editor of The Journal of Hindu Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword: remarks on the philosophical use of categories, Gavin Flood; Introduction: the importance of 'thinking inside the box', Jessica Frazier; VyÄ?karaá¹
a: BhÄ?va as the ultimate category, Eivind Kahrs; NyÄ?ya: pramÄ?á¹
a (knowledge-generators) as natural kinds, Stephen Phillips; SÄ?á¹
khya: the analysis of experience in classical sÄ?á¹
khya, Mikel Burley; VedÄ?nta: metaphors for the category of existence, Jessica Frazier; Early vaiÅ
eá¹£ika: the concept of categories in vaiÅ
eá¹£ika philosophy, Shashiprabha Kumar; Later vaiÅ
eá¹£ika: the 'seven category ontology' reaffirmed, Jonardon Ganeri; Madhyamaka: conventional categories in madhyamaka philosophy, Jan Westerhoff; Jainism: from ontology to taxonomy in the jaina colonisation of the universe, W. J. Johnson; Historical perspectives: the origin of categories in Indian philosophy, Johannes Bronkhorst; The order of things: the goals and categories of categorisation in India, Jessica Frazier; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.