Author: Swami Krishnananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 432
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170520940
Description
The present publication meets a significant demand of seeking minds for a text-book on the metaphysics of a spiritual view of life, which goes into heart of its questions and processes and supplies the needs of the contemplative as well as the practical side of an earnest search for Reality.
This book by Revered Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj is a valuable guide to the student as well as the philosopher of life, a practical directive to seekers on the spiritual path along the lines of knowledge. The work is exclusively devoted to a discussion and exposition of metaphysical side of philosophy and is intended to provide direct assistance in the higher reaches of one’s spiritual quest.
Contents
PUBLISHERS NOTE
PREFACE
PART I
THE FOUNDATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER I
The Definition of Philosophy
CHAPTER II
The Value of Philosophy
CHAPTER III
The Method and Scope of Philosophy
CHAPTER IV
The Atman
CHAPTER V
The Theory of Perception
CHAPTER VI
The Constitution of the Universe
CHAPTER VII
The Phenomenality of Empirical Knowledge
CHAPTER VIII
Brahman
CHAPTER IX
Isvara or the Universal Soul
CHAPTER X
The Jiva
PART II
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOME WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS
Introduction
CHAPTER XI
Immanuel Kant
CHAPTER XII
George Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel
CHAPTER XIII
Arthur Schopenhauer
CHAPTER IV
Friedrich Nietzsche
CHAPTER XV
William James
CHAPTER XVI
Henri Bergson
CHAPTER XVII
Samuel Alexander
CHAPTER XVIII
Alfred North Whitehead
CHAPTER XIX
The Neo-Hegelians
CHAPTER XX
The Importance of the Study of Western Thought
CHAPTER XXI
Philosophy and Life
NOTES
INDEX