Preface | |
Special feature of the work | |
The need and use for the work | |
Possible approaches to the study of Indian philosopy: approach of the present work | |
Presentation of ethics | |
Main divisions of each philosophy | |
Misunderstandings and neglect of the subject in the West | |
Significance and use of comparisons | |
"Know thyself": the dictum | |
Order of the chapters and the nature and interrelations of the schools | |
Significance of sub-titles | |
Some conventions | |
The aim and origins of the work | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
The meaning of Indian philosophy | |
History of Indian philosophy | |
Caste and stages of life | |
Values and ways of life | |
Development of Indian religion | |
Stages of philosophical development | |
The drive of Indian thought | |
IDeas of the Upanisads | |
Introduction | |
Some Upanisadic personages | |
Central doctrines of the Upanisads | |
Concluding remarks | |
The Mimamsa And The Sovereignity Of Ethical Law | |
Introduction | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
Life's ideal | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
The Carvaka And Its Anti-Vedic Materialism | |
Introduction | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
Life's ideal | |
Compromises and transformations in the Carvaka school | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
Jainism And The Ehtics Of Self-Conquest | |
Introduction | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
Life's ideal | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
Buddhism And The Ideal Of Enlightenment | |
Introduction | |
The schools of Buddhism | |
Buddha's original teachings: the school of the elders | |
The developed doctrines of Buddhism | |
Epistemology | |
Life's ideal | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
The Nyaya And The Architechtonic Of Logic | |
Introduction | |
Nature of controversy | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
Life's ideal | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
The Vaisesika And The Doctrine Of Particulars | |
Introduction | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
Appendix to the Nyaya-Vaisesika: The Neo-Nyaya | |
Introduction | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
The Sankhya And The Ideal Of Self-Discrimination | |
Introduction | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
Ideal of life | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
The Yoga And Self-Realization Through Psycho-Physical Practice | |
Introduction | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
The practice of Yoga | |
The metaphysical basis of practice | |
Extraordinary powers | |
Transition to the Vedanta General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
Introduction To The Vedantic Schools | |
The Vedanta Of Sankara: Non-Dualism | |
Introduction | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
Life's ideal | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
The Vedanta Of Ramanuja: Non-Dualism Of The Qualified Brahman | |
Introduction | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
Life's ideal | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
The Vedanta Of Madhva: Dualism Of God And The World | |
Introduction | |
Epistemology | |
Metaphysics | |
Life's ideal | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
Other Vedantins, Kasmir Saivism, And Saktism | |
Introduction | |
The other Vedantins | |
Kasmir Saivism | |
Other Saiva schools | |
Saktism | |
General Estimate and Constructive Comment | |
The Philosophy Of The Bhagavadgita | |
Introduction | |
The doctrines | |
Contemporary Indian Philosophy | |
Introduction | |
Contemporary philsophers | |
Conclusion | |
Appendices | |
Glossary of important Sanskrit terms | |
A note on transliteration and pronunciation | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
Index | |
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