Essays on Indian Philosophy Traditional and Modern

Name: Essays on Indian Philosophy Traditional and Modern
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ISBN: 9780195631425

ISBN-10: 0195631420

ISBN-13: 9780195631425

Edition: 1993

Authors: J. N. Mohanty, Purushottama Bilimoria

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Selected from the works of J. N. Mohanty over a forty-year period, these essays provide an intellectual biography of the man and insights into Eastern philosophy. Part I brings together various writings on problems in metaphysics, epistemology, and language, alongwith thoughtful treatments of notions such as experience, self consciousness, doubt, tradition, and modernity. Part II collects essays written during the exciting though turbulent years following India's independence, and they survey issues in social ethics, reform activities, and religion in the works of Aurobindo, Gandhi, Vinobha, and Ramohan Roy. Part III comprises essays that treat the encounter between phenomenology and…

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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/20/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 388
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.81" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Editor's Introduction: A fusion of disparate horizons


Author's Prologue



Some Problems in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Language



Philosophy as Reflection on Experience



The Concept of Metaphysics



The Concept of Intuition



Kalidas Bhattacharyya as a Metaphysician



Some Thoughts on Daya Krishna's 'Three Myths'



Consciousness in Vedanta



Can the Self become an Object? (Thoughts on Samkara's statement nayam atma ekantena avisaya)



Subject and Person: Eastern and Western Modes of Thinking about Man



Reflections on the Nyaya Theory of Avayavipratyaksa



Nyaya Theory of Doubt



Humanity, Social Ethics and Understanding Religion



Sri Aurobindo on Language



Sri Aurobindo on the Ideal Social Order



Integralism and Modern Philosophical Anthropology



Sarvodaya and Aurobindo: A Rapprochement



The Mind behind Bhoodan: Shri Vinoba Bhave's Land-gift Movement



Science and Self-knowledge



Vinoba's Gandhism: an Aspect



Gandhi's Concept of Man



Remarks on Raja Rammohan Roy's Religious Thought



Encounters: Phenomenology and Philosophy, India and the West



On Interpreting Indian Philosophy - Some Problems and Concerns



Philosophy in India 1967-73



Phenomenology in Indian Philosophy



Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy: the Concept of Rationality



Phenomenology and Existentialism: Encounter with Indian Philosophy



Philosophy of History and its Presuppositions



Are Indian and Western Philosophy radically different?



The Future of Indian Philosophy


Bibliography