Against a Hindu God : Buddhist Philosophy of Religion in India
Parimal G. Patil
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : Columbia University Press, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (421 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Comparative Philosophy of Religions; 1. Disciplinary Challenges; 2. A Grammar for Comparison; 3. Comparative Philosophy of Religions; 4. Content, Structure, and Arguments; |Part 1| Epistemology; Chapter 2: Religious Epistemology in Classical IndiaIn Defense of a Hindu God; 1. Interpreting Nyaya Epistemology; 2. The Nyaya Argument for the Existence of Irvara; 3. Defending the Nyaya Argument; 4. Conclusion: Shifting the Burden of Proof; Chapter 3: Against Irvara Ratnakirti's Buddhist Critique. - 1. An Inventory of Mental Objects/Images2. The Contents of Perception; 3. The Contents of Inferential/Verbal Awareness; 4. Nonexistence, Existence, and Ultimate Existence; 5. The Irvara- Inference, Revisited; 6. Conclusion: Who Created the World?; Conclusion; Chapter 6: The Values of Buddhist Epistemology; 1. Foundational Figures and Foundational Texts; 2. The Soteriological Significance of Epistemology; 3. Jñanarrimitra on Epistemology as Pedagogy; 4. Ratnakirti's Framework of Values; References; Index. - 1. The Section on Pervasion: The Trouble with Natural Relations2. Two Arguments; 3. The Section on the Reason Property; 4. The Section on the Target Property; 5. Conclusion: Is Irvara the Maker of the World?; |Part 2| Language, Mind, and Ontology; Chapter 4: The Theory of Exclusion, Conceptual Content, and Buddhist Epistemology; 1. The Theory of Exclusion; 2. What Exclusion Is Not; 3. Semantic Value; 4. Ratnakirti's Inferential Argument; 5. Conclusion: Jñanarrimitra's Three Questions; Chapter 5: Ratnakirti's World Toward a Buddhist Philosophy of Everything. - Philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God have been crucial to Euro-American and South Asian philosophers for over a millennium. Critical to the history of philosophy in India, were the centuries-long arguments between Buddhist and Hindu philosophers about the existence of a God-like being called Isvara and the religious epistemology used to support them. By focusing on the work of Ratnakirti, one of the last great Buddhist philosophers of India, and his arguments against his Hindu opponents, Parimal G. Patil illuminates South Asian intellectual practices and the nat
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| ISBN | 9780231142229
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