Language and reality : on an episode in Indian thought /

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This book explores the conviction shared by almost all Indian philosophers regarding the close connection between language and reality. It shows that the main currents of Indian philosophy can be understood as answers to a problem that this conviction entailed.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bronkhorst, Johannes, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2011.
Edición:Rev. and with a new appendix.
Colección:Brill's Indological library ; v. 36.
Temas:
Philosophy, Indic > History.
Language and languages > Philosophy > History.
Reference (Philosophy) > History.
Reality > History.
Philosophie de l'Inde > Histoire.
Langage et langues > Philosophie > Histoire.
Référence (Philosophie) > Histoire.
Réalité > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY > Hindu.
Language and languages > Philosophy
Philosophy, Indic
Reality
Reference (Philosophy)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aim of the lectures
  • Early Brahmanical literature
  • Panini's grammar
  • A passage from the Chandogya Upanisad
  • The structures of languages
  • The Buddhist contribution
  • Vaisesika and language
  • Verbal knowledge
  • The contradictions of Nagarjuna
  • The reactions of other thinkers
  • Sarvastivada Samkhya
  • The Agamasastra of Gaudapada
  • Sankara
  • Kashmiri Saivism
  • Jainism
  • Early Vaisesika
  • Critiques of the existence of a thing before its arising
  • Nyaya
  • Mimamsa
  • The Abhidharmakosa bhasya of Vasubandhu
  • The Abhidharmasamuccaya of Asanga and its bhasya
  • Bhartrhari
  • The problem of negation
  • Dignaga and verbal knowledge
  • The Bodhisattvabhumi
  • Prajnakaragupta
  • Indian thinkers and the correspondence principle
  • Appendix. The Mahaprajnaparamitasastra and the Samkhya tanmatras.

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