Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta

Vyāsatīrtha’s Defence of Realism in the Nyāyāmr̥ta
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-072849-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 327 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

This book focuses on discussions of metaphysics and epistemology in early modern India found in the works of the South Indian philosopher Vyasatirtha (1460–1539). Vyasatirtha was pivotal to the ascendancy of the Madhva tradition to intellectual and political influence in the Vijayanagara Empire.

This book is primarily a philosophical reconstruction based on original translations of relevant parts of Vyasatirtha’s Sanskrit philosophical text, the “Nectar of Logic” (Nyayamr?ta). Vyasatirtha wrote the as a vindication of his tradition’s theistic world view against the Advaita tradition of Vedanta. In the centuries after it was written, the came to dominate philosophical discussions among Vedanta traditions in India.

The Advaitins argued for an anti-realist stance about the empirical world, according to which the world of our experience is simply an illusion that can be dispelled by a deep study of the Upani?ads. This book reconstructs the parts of the where Vyasatirtha argues in favor of the reality of the world against the Advaitins. Philosophically, it focuses on the concept of existence in Vyasatirtha’s metaphysics, and on his arguments about knowledge and the philosophy of perception.

Zielgruppe

Researchers of the fields Indian philosophy/theology, metaphysics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Michael Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Thomas Williams, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Österreich.

Michael Thomas Williams, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.