Philosophy of Religion: Indian Philosophy

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Roy W. Perrett
Routledge, Oct 15, 2013 - Philosophy - 384 pages
First Published in 2001. No anthologist succeeds in including everyone's favorites, so a few words about the principles of selection seem appropriate. Firstly, as with other volumes in this series, priority has been given to journal articles, rather than book chapters. However, some essential book chapters have been included, and the introductions to each volume include references to significant books. Secondly, the emphasis throughout is on philosophical studies of Indian philosophy. Consequently, much excellent historical and philological work has been omitted. Thirdly, the desire to make Indian philosophy accessible to interested Western philosophers has meant not only that all the selections are in English, but also that most of them use a minimal amount of unglossed Sanskrit terminology.
 

Contents

Śamkara and Rāmānuja on Brahma Sūtra II 1 3236
1
A Constitutive God An Indian Suggestion
19
Some Arguments in Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta for the Evidence of the Self as Śiva
33
In Pursuit of Dialogue With Rāmānuja
59
A DeathBlow to Śarikaras NonDualism? A Dualist Refutation
77
Towards a Mīmāmsā Deconstruction
87
Principled Atheism in the Buddhist Scholastic Tradition
107
A Contrastive Study in Ideas about Maximal Greatness
132
Karma as a Convenient Fiction in the Advaita Vedānta
243
Notes Towards a Critique of Buddhist Karmic Theory
253
Inherited Responsibility Karma and Original Sin
269
Imperatives and Religion in India
283
Some Philosophical Perspectives
295
Towards a Pragmatics of Mantra Recitation
309
The Meaninglessness of Ritual
326
Analysis of the Religious Factors in Indian Metaphysics
347

Reason Revelation and Idealism in Śartkaras Vedānta
161
The Question of Doctrinalism in the Buddhist Epistemologists
187
Rebirth
213
The Naturalistic Principle of Karma
231
Three Myths about Indian Philosophy
369
Acknowledgments
385
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