Author: Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2002
Language: multilingual
Pages: 648
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120805658
Description
This work clearly marks the principal stages of Indian logic in the vast period of about two thousand years beginning from 640 B.C. and has traced how from Anviksiki – the science of debate, Indian logic developed into the science of knowledge- Pramanasastra, and then into the science of dialectics- Prakarana of Tarkasastra.
The treatment of the subject is both historical and critical. The author has traced some Greek influence on Indian logic. For instance he has shown how the five-membered syllogism of Aristotle found its way through Alexandria, Syria and other countries into Taxila and got amalgamated with the Nyaya doctrine of inference.
The book is one of the pioneer works on the subject. It has drawn on original sources exhaustively. Besides the preface, introduction, foreword and table of contents, the work contains several appendices and indexes.
Contents
Portrait of the late MM Dr Satischandra Vidyabhusana Frontispiece
Author’s Preface
Introduction
Foreword by sir Asutosh Mukerjee
A List of the writings of the late Mahamahopadhyaya
Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhushan
PART I
THE ANCIENT SCHOOL OF INDIAN LOGIC
SECTION I
ANVIKSIKI - THE SCIENCE OF INQUIRY
CHAPTER I
The Growth of Anviksiki into an Art of Debate
CHAPTER II
The Teachers of Anviksiki (Philosophy and Logic)
CHAPTER III
The Doctrines of Anviksiki
CHAPTER IV
Reception accorded to Anviksiki
SECTION II
NYAYA SASTRA - THE SCIENCE OF TRUE REASONING
CHAPTER I
The Growth of Nyayasastra
CHAPTER II
Contents of the Nyaya-Sutra
CHAPTER III
Commentaries on the Nyaya-Sutra
CHAPTER IV
The comparative Estimate of the Anviksiki and the Nyaya
PART II
THE MEDIAEVAL SCHOOL OF INDIAN LOGIC
CALLED PRAMANASASTRA, THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT KNOWLEDGE.
SECTION I
JAINA LOGIC
CHAPTER I
Topics of Logic mentioned in the Jaina Canons.
CHAPTER II
Early Jaina Writers on Logic
CHAPTER III
Jaina Writers on Systematic Logic
CHAPTER IV
Continuity of Jaina Logic
SECTION II
THE BUDDHIST LOGIC
CHAPTER I
Topics of Logic mentioned in the old Buddhist Literature
CHAPTER II
Early Buddhist Writers on Logic
CHAPTER III
Systematic Buddhist Writers on Logic
CHAPTER IV
The Decline of Buddhist Logic
PART III
THE MODERN SCHOOL OF INDIAN LOGIC
SECTION I
PRAKARANA - MANUAL OF LOGIC
CHAPTER I
The Nyaya-prakarana reduces its categories to one.
CHAPTER II
Nyaya-prakaranas embodying Vaisesika categories
CHAPTER III
The Vaisesika Prakarana Embodying the Nyaya category of Pramana
CHAPTER IV
Works treating of certain topics of the Nyaya and certain topics of the Vaisesika
SECTION II
TARKA-SASTRA - THE SCIENCE OF DIALECTICS
CHAPTER I
Formation of the Tarka-sastra
CHAPTER II
Tattva-cintamani - the Earliest work on Tarka-sastra
CHAPTER III
Commentaries on the Tattva-cintamani
CHAPTER IV
Present State of the Science of Dialectics
APPENDICES
INDEXES
TIBETAN INDEXES