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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451107603321

Autore

Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi

Titolo

Indian philosophy and the consequences of knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : themes in ethics, metaphysics and soteriology / / Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2007

ISBN

1-317-11743-3

1-317-11742-5

1-281-09923-6

9786611099237

0-7546-8676-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Disciplina

181/.4

Soggetti

Philosophy, Indic

Knowledge, Theory of

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Multiplist Metaphysics and Ethics; 2 Consciousness and Luminosity: On How Knowledge is Possible; 3 Knowledge and Action: On How to Attain the Highest Good; 4 Liberation without Annihilation: Parthasarathi Misra on Jnanasakti; 5 Conceptuality in Question: Teaching and Pure Cognition in Yogacara-Madhyamaka; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a collection of essays, setting out both the special concern of classical Indian thought and some of its potential contributions to global philosophy. It presents some key arguments made by different schools about this special concern: the way in which attainment of knowledge of reality transforms human nature in a fundamentally liberating way. It then goes on to look in detail at two areas in contemporary global philosophy - the ethics of difference, and the metaphysics of consciousness - where this classical Indian commitment to the spiritually transformative power of know