Philosophy of India by Heinrich Zimmer Edited by Joseph Campbell, 709 Pages, 1952 [djvu and pdf - with outlines and text]

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Philosophies of India by Heinrich Zimmer

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Editor's Forward
Table of Contents
Part I. The Highest Good
    I. The Meeting of East and West
        1. The Roar of Awakening
        2. The Steely Barb
        3. The Claims of Science
        4. The Four Aims of Life
        5. Release and Progress
    II. Tile Foundations of Indian Philosophy
        1. Philosophy as a Way of Life
        2. The Qualified Pupil
        3. Philosophy as Power
        4. "The Dying round the Holy Power"
        5. Brahman
Part II. The Philosophies of Time
    I. The Philosophy of Success
        1. The World at War
        2. The Tyrant State
        3. Valor against Time
        4. The Function of Treachery
        5. Political Geomctry
        6. The Seven Ways to Approach a Neighbour
        7. The Universal King
    II. The Philosophy of Pleasure
    III. Tile Philosophy of Duty
        1. Caste and the Four Life-Stages
        2. Satya
        3. Satyagraha
        4. The Palace of Wisdom
Part III. The Philosophies of Eternity
    I. Jainism
        1. Parsva
        2. Jaina Images
        3. The Maker of the Crossing
        4. The Qualities of Matter
        5. The Mask of the Personality
        6. The Cosmic Man
        7. The Jaina Doctrine of Bondage
        8. The Jaina Doctrine of Release
        9. The Doctrine of Maskarin Gosala
        10. Man against Nature
    II. Sankhya and Yoga
        1. Kapila and Patanjali
        2. Introvert-Concentration
        3. The Hindrances
        4. Integrity and Integration
        5. Sankhya Psychology
    III. Brahmanism
        1. Veda
        2. Upanisad
        3. Bhagavad Gita
        4. Vedanta
    IV. Buddhism
        1. Buddhahood
        2. The Great Buddhist Kings
        3. Hinayana and Mahayana
        4. The Way of the Bodhisattva
        5. The Great Delight
    V. Tantra
        1. Who Seeks Nirvana?
        2. The Lamb, the Hero, and the Man-God
        3. All the Goth within Us
Appendices
    Appendix A: The Six Systems
    Appendix B: Historical Summary
    Bibliography
General Index and Sanskrit Index

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