Philosophy and India
Ancestors, Outsiders, and Predecessors
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 15 August 2013
- ISBN 9780198092230
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages162 pages
- Size 227x149x19 mm
- Weight 402 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book brings to bear critical perspectives on the major Indian academic philosophers' discussions on the West, modernity, colonialism, classical Indian philosophy, and modern Western philosophy. Through a discussion of the works and influence of philosophers it establishes the strengths and limitations of philosophy as practised in India.
MoreLong description:
This book critically assesses the contributions of the country's leading academic philosophers by analysing the strengths and limitations that characterize the practice of philosophy in India. It focuses on their discussions of modernity, colonialism, classical Indian philosophy, and modern Western philosophy. Divided into three sections, the first discusses the works of Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya and Akeel Bilgrami, and their project of offering Indian solutions to Western philosophical problems. The second part deals with Daya Krishna's attempts to engage traditional Indian philosophy in a dialogue with Western philosophy and Satchidananda Murty's assessment of the state of philosophy in Indian universities. The author argues how both failed to look at the works of Vivekananda, Aurobindo, and Gandhi, who had more successfully engaged with their predecessors as well as 'outsiders'. Finally, the book explores the attempts to absorb Buddhism into Hinduism in the works of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and S. Radhakrishnan, as well as the counter arguments posed by Ambedkar and T.R.V. Murty. The debates highlighted in this book will make the reader aware of the structures and paradigms of philosophy as practised in India.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Indian Solutions to Western Problems
: Advaita to Kant
: Gandhi to Western Moral Philosophy
: Epic for Ethics
Part II: Ancestors and Predecessors
: The Texts on Sabbatical
: Philosophy in India
Part III: Denying the Difference
: Buddhism in Hinduism
: Buddhism in Indian Philosophy
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index
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