Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy

Matthew R. Dasti, Edwin F. Bryant (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2014
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-992273-4 (ISBN)

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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, Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy offers an understanding, according to each school, of the nature of free will and agency.

Indian thought is well known for diverse philosophical and contemplative excursions into the nature of selfhood. Led by Buddhists and the yoga traditions of Hinduism and Jainism, Indian thinkers have engaged in a rigorous analysis and reconceptualization of our common notion of self. Less understood is the way in which such theories of self intersect with issues involving agency and free will; yet such intersections are profoundly important, as all major schools of Indian thought recognize that moral goodness and religious fulfillment depend on the proper understanding of personal agency. Moreover, their individual conceptions of agency and freedom are typically nodes by which an entire school's epistemological, ethical, and metaphysical perspectives come together as a systematic whole.

Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy explores the contours of this issue, from the perspectives of the major schools of Indian thought. With new essays by leading specialists in each field, this volume provides rigorous analysis of the network of issues surrounding agency and freedom as developed within Indian thought.

Matthew R. Dasti is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University. Edwin F. Bryant is Professor of Hindu Religion and Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Acknowledgments ; Contributors ; Introduction ; Chapter 1 Agency in Samkhya and Yoga - Edwin F. Bryant ; Chapter 2 Free Persons, Empty Selves - Karin Meyers ; Chapter 3 Free Will and Volunteerism in Jainism - Christopher Key Chapple ; Chapter 4 Paninian Grammarians on Agency and Independence - George Cardona ; Chapter 5 Nyaya's Self as Agent and Knower - Matthew R. Dasti ; Chapter 6 Freedom Because of Duty - Elisa Freschi ; Chapter 7 Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose - Jay L. Garfield ; Chapter 8 Self, Causation, and Agency in the Advaita of Sankara Sthaneshwar Timalsina ; Chapter 9 The Linguistics and Cosmology of Agency in Nondual Kashmiri Saiva Thought ; Chapter 10 Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Ramanuja - Martin Ganeri ; Chapter 11 Dependent Agency and Hierarchical Determinism in the Theology of Madhva - David Buchta ; Chapter 12 Agency in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Tradition - Satyanarayana Dasa and Jonathan B. Edelmann ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.2.2014
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	239 x 163 mm
Gewicht	604 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	0-19-992273-X / 019992273X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-992273-4 / 9780199922734
Zustand	Neuware