Ebook: Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-self
- Series: Dialogues in South Asian Traditions
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Ashgate
- City: Farnham
- Language: English
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The debates between various Buddhist and Hindu philosophical systems about the existence, definition and nature of self, occupy a central place in the history of Indian philosophy and religion. These debates concern various issues: what 'self' means; whether the self can be said to exist at all; how the ordinary reality of individual persons can be explained; and the consequences of each position. At a time when Read more...
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Senses of Self and Not-self in the Upani?ads and Nikayas; 2 Why Didn't Siddhartha Gautama Become a Sa?khya Philosopher; 3 Self, Consciousness, and Liberation in Classical Sa?khya; 6 Uddyotakara's Defence of a Self; 7 The Abode of Recognition; 8 Self and Memory; 9 Action, Desire and Subjectivity; 10 On the Advaitic Identification of Self and Consciousness; 11 Luminosity, Subjectivity, and Temporality; 12 Arguing from Synthesis to the Self; 13 Indian Philosophy and the Question of the Self; Bibliography; Index.