Author: A K Warder
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 248
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-208-1244-1
Description
This outline is intended to serve as an introduction for Indian philosophy, providing essential basic material for the study, chronologically arranged with references for further reading.
This volume is the first general introduction, for English-reading students. It shows how Indian philosophers have posed such questions as whether we can be sure we 'know' anything, whether words 'mean' anything, whether it is possible to generalize from observed regularities in nature and whether there is anything in nature, or in 'reality', corresponding to our concept of a 'class'. It traces the sustained and rigorous analysis of such philosophical problems through many centuries, indicating in outline the interrelationships of ideas and 'schools' and development of the theory of knowledge, formal logic and other analytical investigations. The closely related development of science in India is also indicated.
This does not imply that Indian philosophy is the same as 'Western' philosophy or part of it, which would make it redundant and uninteresting. It is interesting in that it discusses similar philosophical problems in different ways, as philosophers elsewhere have. But there is the problem of translation, obvious in most books on Indian tradition, especially, if we compare any two of them. This course is based only on original Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit source translated by the author.
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
CHAPTER I
Preliminary Definitions
CHAPTER II
Summary
CHAPTER III
Origins
CHAPTER IV
Uddalaka
CHAPTER V
Sandilya, Yajnavalkya and other Upanisad Speculations
CHAPTER VI
The Sramanas
CHAPTER VII
Lokayata, Ajivaka and Ajnana Philosophy
CHAPTER VIII
The Buddha
CHAPTER IX
Jainism
CHAPTER X
Samkhya and Mimamsa
CHAPTER XI
Dharma and Artha
CHAPTER XII
Ancient Indian science
CHAPTER XIII
Abhidharma and Logic
CHAPTER XIV
Buddhism : Sthaviravada (Or Theravada) and other Schools
CHAPTER XV
Jaimini and Varsaganya
CHAPTER XVI
Vaisesika
CHAPTER XVII
Further Developments in Logic and Epistemology
CHAPTER XVIII
Mahayana Buddhism
CHAPTER XIX
Debate and Logic (Caraka and Others)
CHAPTER XX
Madhyamaka
CHAPTER XXI
Aksapada and Nyaya
CHAPTER XXII
Idealism : The Later Mahayana Sutras
CHAPTER XXIII
Asanga
CHAPTER XXIV
Dinnaga
CHAPTER XXV
Post-Dinnaga Brahanical Philosophy
CHAPTER XXVI
Post-Dinnage Buddhist Philosophy
CHAPTER XXVII
Navya Nyaya
Selected Bibliography
Index