| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Agency in Samkhya and Yoga / Edwin F. Bryant -- Free Persons, Empty Selves / Karin Meyers -- Free Will and Volunteerism in Jainism / Christopher Key Chapple -- Paninian Grammarians on Agency and Independence / George Cardona -- Nyaya's Self as Agent and Knower / Matthew R. Dasti -- Freedom Because of Duty / Elisa Freschi -- Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose / Jay L. Garfield -- Self, Causation, and Agency in the Advaita of Sankara / Sthaneshwar Timalsina -- The Linguistics and Cosmology of Agency in Nondual Kashmiri Saiva Thought -- Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Ramanuja / Martin Ganeri -- Dependent Agency and Hierarchical Determinism in the Theology of Madhva / David Buchta -- Agency in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Tradition / Satyanarayana Dasa and Jonathan B. Edelmann |
| Summary |
Focusing on the rich and variegated cluster of Indic philosophical traditions as they developed from the late Vedic period up to the pre-modern period, this book offers an understanding, according to each school, of the nature of free will and agency |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Indic.
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Self (Philosophy) -- India
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Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
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Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects
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Philosophy, Indic
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Self (Philosophy)
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dasti, Matthew R., editor
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Bryant, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis), 1957- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199922741 |
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0199922748 |
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