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Understanding Schopenhauer through the prism of Indian culture : philosophy, religion, and Sanskrit literature /

Arthur Schopenhauer was the first Western thinker who incorporated thoughts of the Upanishads in his own philosophy. With the increasing interest in Schopenhauer serious work on the relationship between him and Indian philosophy becomes necessary. This book answers to this necessity, not only provid...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barua, Arati, Gerhard, Michael, Kossler, Matthias, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • (I) Understanding
  • Philosophizing Under the Influence – Schopenhauer’s Indian Thought
  • The Upaniṣads – Schopenhauer’s Solace of Life and Death
  • Suspected of Buddhism –Śaṅkara Dārāṣekoh and Schopenhauer
  • “The Ancient Rhapsodies of Truth” – Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Max Müller and the Hermeneutics
  • (II) Philosophemes
  • The Overcoming of the Individual in Schopenhauer’s Ethics of Compassion, Illustrated by the Sanskrit Formula of the ‘tat tvam asi’
  • The Relationship between Will and Intellect in Schopenhauer with Particular Regard to His Use of the Expression “Veil of māyā”
  • The Indian Context of Schopenhauer’s ‘Holy Man’ or ‘Beautifu Soul’
  • All Is Suffering – Reexamining the Logic of ‘Indian Pessimism’
  • The Denial of the Will-to-Live in Schopenhauer’s World and His Association between Buddhist and Christian Saints
  • (III) Philosophers
  • Transcending Egoism through Moral Praxis – Schopenhauer and Vivekānanda
  • Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein and Indian Philosophy: Some Forgotten Linkages
  • (IV) Literature
  • Schopenhauer and Tagore on the Key to Dreamland
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index