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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823449003321

Autore

Dasti Matthew R

Titolo

Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cary, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013

ISBN

0-19-992274-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BryantEdwin F <1957-> (Edwin Francis)

Disciplina

126.0954

Soggetti

Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects

Philosophy, Indic

Self (Philosophy) -- India

Philosophy, Indic - Religious aspects - India

Self (Philosophy)

Free will and determinism

Philosophy & Religion

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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.