Author: Susan Walters
J L Shaw/
Publisher: Ramakrishna Mission
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 340
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187332018
Description
This volume is a collection of twenty-one papers presented at an International Seminar attended by thirteen scholars from overseas and ten from India, besides a number of notable scholars who took part in the discussions as observers.
How do we know? This seemingly simple question has aroused the interest of numerous philosophers of East and West from ancient times down to the present, and innumerable answers have been given. Because of the wide interest in this vital question, a - 5 day international seminar was organized by the Ramakrishna Mission with a view to help narrow the wide gap of misunderstanding on this subject between modern philosophers of East and West.
Prof. DasGupta in his paper 'Swami Vivekananda's Concept of Knowledge' discussed Western epistemology comparing it with Swami Vivekananda's views. The editors decided that because of the paper's relevance to the subject of the Seminar, it would be a fitting introduction to this volume. Therefore it has become the Foreword to this book.
Contents
Publisher's Note
Foreword : Swami Vivekananda's Concept of Knowledge
CHAPTER I
The Epistemological Point of View of Bhartrhari
CHAPTER II
Cultural Presuppositions as Determinants in Experience : A Comparison of Some Basic Indian and Western Concepts
CHAPTER III
An Epistemological Study of Mysticism in Christianity and Hinduism
CHAPTER IV
Ramanuja's Concept of Knowledge
CHAPTER V
Some Remarks on the Definition of Knowledge
CHAPTER VI
The Use of the Word Prama : Valid Cognition in Advaita Vedanta
CHAPTER VII
Theories of Error in Indian Philosophy or Five Types of Khyati
CHAPTER VIII
Valid Cognition (Prama) and the Truth (Satyata) of its Object
CHAPTER IX
The Concept of 'Realization' Re-examined
CHAPTER X
Classical Yoga Philosophy and Some Issues in the Philosophy of Mind
CHAPTER XI
Epistemology from a Relativistic Point of View
CHAPTER XII
Epistemology and Understanding of Language
CHAPTER XIII
Confucian Knowledge : Commensurability and Alterity
CHAPTER XIV
Knowledge and Ignorance
CHAPTER XV
Truth Vs. Workability Rehashed
CHAPTER XVI
Knowledge, Truth, and Scepticism
CHAPTER XVII
Knowledge : Some contemporary Problems and their Solutions from the Nyaya Perspective
CHAPTER XVIII
Madhyamaka on Naturalized Epistemology
CHAPTER XIX
What Limits to Though, Inquiry and Philosophy ?
CHAPTER XX
The Action of the Subject towards the Outer World in Indian Realism
CHAPTER XXI
Patanjali's Classical Yoga : An Epistemological Emphasis