Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought,9780333927472

Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought

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ISBN13: 9780333927472
ISBN10: 0333927478
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-04-14
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Classical Indian schools of philosophy seek to attain a supreme end to existence--liberation from the cycle of lives. This book looks at four conceptions of liberation and the roles of analytic inquiry and philosophical knowledge in its attainment. The central motivation of Indian philosophy--the quest for the Highest Good--is situated in the analytic philosophical activity of key thinkers.

Author Biography

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Chronology of Sacred Texts and the Philosophers of each School x
Introduction 1(6)
Bhatta Mimamsa: Action, the Sacred Texts and the End of Action
7(50)
The sacred text and its relation to reality
9(6)
Mimamsa reality
15(4)
The self and the unliberated state
19(7)
The modest role of knowledge
26(12)
Action and the attainment of liberation
38(6)
The content of liberation
44(13)
Nyaya: Suffering, Detachment and Peace
57(52)
Self and world
60(17)
Liberation
77(16)
Philosophical inquiry and practice
93(7)
The place of theism in Nyaya
100(9)
Yogacara-Madhyamika: Conceptualisation, Insight and Pure Cognition
109(53)
The nature of the unliberated life
112(6)
The results of analysis: the denial of externality and the rejection of the self
118(18)
Intellectual practice for the attainment of liberation
136(6)
Liberation
142(20)
Advaita Vedanta: Radical Misunderstanding and the De-individuation of Consciousness
162(56)
The philosophical framework
163(17)
The unliberated life
180(8)
Liberation
188(8)
The receptive attitude and the critical mind: approaches to liberation
196(13)
Self-realisation and figurative liberation
209(5)
God in Advaita: a concluding remark
214(4)
Concluding Summary 218(3)
Notes 221(27)
Bibliography 248(6)
Index 254

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