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1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; SECTION I: ŚAṄKARA: EXTERNALITY; 1. Śaṅkara and the philosophical framework of Advaita; 2. Śaṅkara, Vasubandhu and the idealist use of dreaming; 3. Śaṅkara, dreaming and non-realism; SECTION II: VĀCASPATI: DETERMINACY; 1. Vācaspati on anirvacanlyatva Transcendental arguments; SECTION III: SRI HARSA: EXISTENCE; 1. Knowledge and Existence; 2. The non-realist critique of Existence |
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Discursive Appendix: Reading Śrī Harsa through 20th-century anti-sceptical naturalism 'Idealism', Vijñānavāda and the dual aspectSECTION IV: APPLYING NON-REALISM; 1. Causal connections, cognition and regularity: comparativist remarks on David Hume and Śrī Harsạ The Vijnanavadin: dreams can prove there is no extrinsic world; 2. Immediacy and the direct theory of perception: problems from Śrī Harsạ; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'. This is the view that an independent, external world must be assumed if the features of cognition are to be explained, but that it cannot be proved that there is such a world, independently of an appeal to cognition itself. This position is constructed |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Advaita.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics
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epistemology.
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metaphysics.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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Advaita
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Metaphysics
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136868900 |
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1136868909 |
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0700716041 |
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9780700716043 |
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