Author: John A Taber
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 191
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170303451
Description
In the History of Philosophy there have been certain figures for whom philosophy has been not so much a quest for true ideas as search for higher states of consciousness. Such thinkers tell us that ordinary experience is a dream, an illusion, a faint reflection of what is truly real, and that if we are to know the truly real we must awaken from the dream, enliven slumbering faculties, make a transition to a new state of awareness. Fichie and Sankara , the two thinkers with whom the present study is primarily concerned the philosophy of this category.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Transormative Structure of Sankara’s Advaita Vedanta
1. Is Sankara’s Advaita Vedanta Exclusively a Path of Knowledge
2. Sankara’s Prerequisites
3. The Quest for Liberation and Levels of Discourse
Chapter 2: Indian Philosophy, Western Philosophy, and the Problem of Intelligibility
1. Sankara’s Theory of consciousness
2. Self-Consciousness as a Self-Contradiction
3. Myticism and Paradox
4. The Mechanics of transformation
5. Transformative Philosophy as a Type
Chapter 3: Fichte as Transormative Philosopher
1. The Intellectual Instition and the Emergence of Self-Consciousness
2. The Transformation Wrought by knowledge
3. Ficte’s Eductional program
4. The “Logic” of Transformative Philosophy
Chapter 4: Ramifications of Transformative philosophy
1. Heidegger and the Task of thinking
2. Is Transformative Philosophy Edifying Philosophy
3. In Defence of Transformative Philosophy
Notes
Bibliography
Index