Author: F Th. Stcherbatsky
Publisher: LP Publications
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 1026
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175361751
Description
This work in 2 volumes bound in one covers Mahayyana Buddhistic logic of the school of Dignaga.
The first volume is a history of Indian logic with central Asiatic continuation and then a detailed exposition of Dignaga system. The second volume is a translation of Dharamakirti's Nyayabindu with Dharmottara's commentary. The book contains appendixes and translations.
Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Buddhist Logic what
The place of Logic in the history of Buddhism
First period of Buddhist philosophy
Second period of Buddhist philosophy
Third period of Buddhist philosophy
The place of Buddhist Logic in the history of India philosophy
The Materialists
Jainism
The Sankhya Syste
The Yoga System
The Vedanta
The Mimamsa
The Nyaya-Vaisesika System
Buddhist Logic before Dignaga
The life of Dignaga
The Life of Dharmakirti
The works of Dharmakriti
The order of the chapters in Pramana-vartika
The philological school of commentators
The Cashmere or philosophic school of commentators
The third or religious school of commentators
Post-Buddhist Logic and the struggle between Realism and Nominalism in India
Buddhist Logic in China and Japan
Buddhist Logic in Tibet and Mongolia
PART I: REALITY AND KNOWLEDGE (pramanaya-vada)
1. Scope and aim of Buddhist Logic
2. A source of knowledge what
3. Cognition and Recognition
4. The test of truth
5. Realistic and Buddhistic view of experience
6. Two realities
7. The double character of a source of knowledge
8. The limits of cognition. Dogmatism and Criticism
PART II: THE SENSIBLE WORLD
CHAPTER I
The Theory of Instantaneous Being (ksanika-vada)
1. The problem stated
2. Reality is kinetic
3. Argument from ideality of Time and Space
4. Duration and extention are not real
5. Argument from direct perception
6. Recognition does not prove duration
7. Argument from an analysis of the notion of existence
8. Argument from an analysis of the notion of non-existence
9. Santiraksita’s formula
10. Change and annihilation
11. Motion is discontinuous
12. Annihilation certain a priori
13. Momentariness deduced from the law of Contradiction
14. Is the point-instant a reality? The Differential Calculus
15. History of the doctrine of Momentariness
16. Some European Parallels
CHAPTER II
Causation (pratitya-samutpada)
1. Causation as functional dependence
2. The formulas of causation
3. Causation and Reality identical
4. Two kind of Causality
5. Plurality of causes
6. Infinity of causes
7. Causality and Free Will
8. The four meanings of Dependent Origination
9. Some European Parallels
CHAPTER III
Sense-perception (pratyaksam)
1. The definition of sense-perception
2. The experiment of Dharmakirti
3. Perception and illusion
4. The varieties of intuition
a. Mental sensation (manasa-praktyaksa)
b. The intelligible intuition of the Saint (yogi-pratyaksa)
c. Introspection (svasamvedana)
5. History of the Indian vies on sense-perception
6. Some European Parallels
CHAPTER IV: ULTIMATE REALITY (paramartha-aat)
1. What is ultimately real
2. The Particular is the ultimate reality
3. Reality is unutterable
4. Reality produces a vivid image
5. Ultimate Reality is dynamic
6. The Monad and the Atom
7. Reality is Affirmation
8. Objections
9. The evolution of the view on Reality
10. Some European Parallels
PART III: THE CONSTRUCTED WORLD
CHAPTER I: JUDGMENT
1. Transition from pure sensation to conception
2. The first steps of the Understanding
3. A judgment what
4. Judgment and the synthesis in conception
5. Judgment and namegiving
6. Categories
7. Judgment view as analysis
8. Judgment as objectively valid
9. History of the theory of judgment
10. Some European Parallels
CHAPTER II: INFERENCE
1. Judgment and Inference
2. The three terms
3. The various definitions of inference
4. Inferring and Inference
5. How far Inference is true knowledge
6. The three Aspects of the Reason
7. Dhamakirti’s tract on relations
8. Two lines of dependence
9. Analytic and Synthetic judgments
10. The final table of Categories
11. Are the items of the table mutually exclusive
12. Is the Buddhist table of relations exhaustive
13. Universal and Necessary Judgments
14. The limits of the use of pure Understanding
15. Historical sketch of the views of Inference
16. Some European Parallels
CHAPTER III: SYLLOGISM (pararthanumanam)
1. Definition
2. The members of syllogism
3. Syllogism and Induction
4. The figures of Syllogism
5. The value of Syllogism
6. Historical sketch of syllogism viewed as inference for others
7. European and Buddhist Syllogism
a) Definition by Aristotle and by the Buddhists
b) Aristotle’s Syllogism from Example
c) Inference and Induction
d) The Buddhist syllogism contains two prospositions
e) Contraposition
f) Figures
g) The Causal and Hypothetical Syllogism
h) Summary
CHAPTER IV: LOGICAL FALLACIES
1. Classification
2. Fallacy against Reality (asiddha-hetv-abhasa)
3. Fallacy of a Contrary Reason
4. Fallacy of an Uncertain Reason
5. The Antinomical Fallacy
6. Dharmaskirti’s additions
7. History
a) Manual of Dialectics
b) The refutative syllogism of the Madhyamikas
c) The Vaisesika system influenced by the Buddhists
d) The Nyaya system influenced by Diguaga
8. European Parallels
PART IV: NEGATION
CHAPTER I: The negative Judgments
1. The essence of Negation
2. Negation is an Inference
3. The figures of the Negative Syllogism. The figure of Simple Negation
4. The ten remaining figures
5. Importance of Negation
6. Contradiction and Causality only in the Empirical Sphere
7. Negation of supersensuous objects
8. Indian developments
9. European Parallels:
a) Sigwart’s theory
b) Denied copula and Negative Predicate
c) Judgment and Re-judgment
CHAPTER II: THE LAW OF CONTRADICTI0N
1. The origin of contradiction
2. Logical Contradiction
3. Dynamical opposition
4. Law of Otherness
5. Different formulations of the Laws of contradiction and Otherness
6. Other Indian schools on contradiction
7. Some European Parallels
a) The Law of Excluded Middle
b) The Law of Double Negation
c) The Law of Identity
d) Two European Logics
e) Heracleitus
f) Causation and Identity in the fragments of Heracleitus
g) The Elastic Law of Contradiction
h) plato
i) Kant and Sigwart
j) The Aristotelian formula of contradiction and Dharmakirti’s theory of Relations
CHAPTER III: UNIVERSALS
1. The static Universality of Things replaced by similarity of action
2. History of the problem of Universal
3. Some European Parallels
CHAPTER IV: DIALECTIC
1. Dignaga’s Theory of Names
2. Jinendrabuddhi on the Theory of the Negative Meaning of Names
a) All names are negative
b) The origin of Universals
c) Controversy with the Realist
d) The experience of individuals becomes the agreed experience of the Human Mind
e) Conclusion
3. Santiraksita and Kamalasila on the negative meaning of words
4. Historical sketch of the development of the Buddhist Dialectical Method
5. European Parallels
a) Kant and Hegel
b) J.S. Mill and A. Bain
c) Sigwart
d) Affirmation what
e) Ulrici and Lotze
PART V: REALITY OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD
1. What is Real
2. What is External
3. The three worlds
4. Critical Realism
5. Ultimate Monism
6. Idealism
7. Dignaga’s tract on the Unreality of the External World
8. Dharmakirti’s tract on the Repudiation of Solipsism
9. History of the problem of the Reality of the External World
10. Some European Parallels
11. Indo-European Symposion on the Reality of the External World
Conclusion
Indices
Appendix
Appenda
Vol. 2
Preface
A short treatise of Logic (Nyaya-bindu) by Dharmakirti with its commentary (Nyaya-bindu-tika) by Dharmottara translated from the sanscrit text edited in the Bibliotheka Buddhica
I. Perception
II. Inference
II. Syllogism
Appendices
I. Vacaspatimisra on the Buddhist Theory of Perception
II.Vacaspatimisra on the Buddhist Theory of a radical distinction between sensation and
conception (pramana-vyavastha ‘versus’ pramana-samplava)
III. The theory of mental sensation (manasa-pratyaksa).
IV. Vasubandhu, Vinitadeva, Vacaspatimisra, Udayana, Dignaga and Jinendrabuddhi on the act and the content of knowledge, on the coordination (sarupya) of percepts with their objects and on our knowledge of the external world.
V. Vacaspatimisra on Buddhist Nominalism (apohavada)
VI. Corrections to the text of the Nyayabindu, Nyaya-bindu-tika and Nyaya-bindu-tika-Tippant printed in the Bibliotheka Buddhica
Indices
I. Proper names
II. Schools
III. Sanscrit works
IV. Sanscrit words and expressions