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Free will, agency, and selfhood in Indian philosophy /

Focusing on the rich and variegated cluster of Indic philosophical traditions as they developed from the late Vedic period up to the pre-modern period, this book offers an understanding, according to each school, of the nature of free will and agency.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dasti, Matthew R. (Editor ), Bryant, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis), 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Agency in Samkhya and Yoga / Edwin F. Bryant
  • Free Persons, Empty Selves / Karin Meyers
  • Free Will and Volunteerism in Jainism / Christopher Key Chapple
  • Paninian Grammarians on Agency and Independence / George Cardona
  • Nyaya's Self as Agent and Knower / Matthew R. Dasti
  • Freedom Because of Duty / Elisa Freschi
  • Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose / Jay L. Garfield
  • Self, Causation, and Agency in the Advaita of Sankara / Sthaneshwar Timalsina
  • The Linguistics and Cosmology of Agency in Nondual Kashmiri Saiva Thought
  • Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Ramanuja / Martin Ganeri
  • Dependent Agency and Hierarchical Determinism in the Theology of Madhva / David Buchta
  • Agency in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Tradition / Satyanarayana Dasa and Jonathan B. Edelmann.