A History of Indian Logic  - Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Schools

A History of Indian Logic - Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Schools

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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