02928nam 22006494a 450 991082375320332120240430210543.01-315-58830-71-317-11743-31-317-11742-51-281-09923-697866110992370-7546-8676-0(CKB)1000000000408792(EBL)438883(OCoLC)427565634(SSID)ssj0000178305(PQKBManifestationID)11183067(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178305(PQKBWorkID)10221324(PQKB)10956192(Au-PeEL)EBL438883(CaPaEBR)ebr10211320(CaONFJC)MIL924874(Au-PeEL)EBL5293531(CaONFJC)MIL109923(OCoLC)437138159(MiAaPQ)EBC438883(MiAaPQ)EBC5293531(EXLCZ)99100000000040879220060705d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIndian philosophy and the consequences of knowledge themes in ethics, metaphysics and soteriology /Chakravarthi Ram-PrasadAldershot, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgate Pub.c20071 online resource (191 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-5456-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-168) and index.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; IndexThis 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 knowPhilosophy, IndicKnowledge, Theory ofPhilosophy, Indic.Knowledge, Theory of.181/.4Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi1595468MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823753203321Indian philosophy and the consequences of knowledge4089379UNINA