Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 January 2014
- ISBN 9780199922758
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 155x231x22 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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, Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy offers an understanding, according to each school, of the nature of free will and agency.
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Indian thought is well known for diverse philosophical and contemplative excursions into the nature of selfhood. Led by Buddhists and the yoga traditions of Hinduism and Jainism, Indian thinkers have engaged in a rigorous analysis and reconceptualization of our common notion of self. Less understood is the way in which such theories of self intersect with issues involving agency and free will; yet such intersections are profoundly important, as all major schools of Indian thought recognize that moral goodness and religious fulfillment depend on the proper understanding of personal agency. Moreover, their individual conceptions of agency and freedom are typically nodes by which an entire school's epistemological, ethical, and metaphysical perspectives come together as a systematic whole.
Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy explores the contours of this issue, from the perspectives of the major schools of Indian thought. With new essays by leading specialists in each field, this volume provides rigorous analysis of the network of issues surrounding agency and freedom as developed within Indian thought.
Questions about free will and agency have challenged and vexed the best philosophical-and theological-minds for millennia, yet the bulk of writing on the topic comes down to us from the intellectual traditions of the West. The erudite and insightful essays collected here help us to redress the imbalance, by concerted attention to the great intellectual traditions of India. No consensus on the age-old paradoxes emerges here, but these essays enable us to see more clearly what it means to be responsible ethical agents in the religious and political worlds we inhabit today.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 Agency in Samkhya and Yoga - Edwin F. Bryant
Chapter 2 Free Persons, Empty Selves - Karin Meyers
Chapter 3 Free Will and Volunteerism in Jainism - Christopher Key Chapple
Chapter 4 Paninian Grammarians on Agency and Independence - George Cardona
Chapter 5 Nyaya's Self as Agent and Knower - Matthew R. Dasti
Chapter 6 Freedom Because of Duty - Elisa Freschi
Chapter 7 Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose - Jay L. Garfield
Chapter 8 Self, Causation, and Agency in the Advaita of Sankara Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Chapter 9 The Linguistics and Cosmology of Agency in Nondual Kashmiri Saiva Thought
Chapter 10 Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Ramanuja - Martin Ganeri
Chapter 11 Dependent Agency and Hierarchical Determinism in the Theology of Madhva - David Buchta
Chapter 12 Agency in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Tradition - Satyanarayana Dasa and Jonathan B. Edelmann
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