Against a Hindu god : Buddhist philosophy of religion in India /

Philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God have been crucial to Euro-American and South Asian philosophers for over a millennium. Critical to the history of philosophy in India, were the centuries-long arguments between Buddhist and Hindu philosophers about the existence of a God-l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Patil, Parimal G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
Temas:
Ratnakīrti.
Ratnakīrti
Knowledge, Theory of (Buddhism)
God (Hinduism)
Nyaya.
Religion > Philosophy.
Théorie de la connaissance (Bouddhisme)
Dieu (Hindouisme)
Nyāya.
Religion > Philosophie.
RELIGION > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Buddhist.
Nyaya
Religion > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Comparative philosophy of religions
  • Disciplinary challenges
  • A grammar for comparison
  • Comparative philosophy of religions
  • Content, structure, and arguments
  • Epistemology
  • Religious epistemology in classical India: in defense of a Hindu god
  • Interpreting Nyāya epistemology
  • The Nyāya argument for the existence of Īśvara
  • Defending the Nyāya argument
  • Conclusion: Shifting the burden of proof
  • Against Īśvara: Ratnakīrti's Buddhist critique
  • The Section on pervasion: the trouble with natural relations
  • Two arguments
  • The Section on the reason property
  • The Section on the target property
  • Conclusion: Is Īśvara the maker of the world?
  • Language, mind, and ontology
  • The theory of exclusion, conceptual content, and Buddhist epistemology
  • The theory of exclusion
  • What exclusion is not
  • Semantic value
  • Ratnakīrti's inferential argument
  • Conclusion: Jñānaśrīmitra's three questions
  • Ratnakīrti's world: toward a Buddhist philosophy of everything
  • An inventory of mental objects/images
  • The contents of perception
  • The contents of inferential/verbal awareness
  • Nonexistence, existence, and ultimate existence
  • The Īśvara-inference, revisited
  • Conclusion: Who created the world?
  • The values of Buddhist epistemology
  • Foundational figures and foundational texts
  • The soteriological significance of epistemology
  • Jñānaśrīmitra on epistemology as pedagogy
  • Ratnakīrti's framework of value
  • Conclusion: Religious reasoning as religious practice.

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