Philology and Confrontation

Paul Hacker on Traditional and Modern Vedanta

Buch | Hardcover

378 Seiten

1995
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-2581-7 (ISBN)

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Wilhelm Halbfass (1940–2000) was Professor of Indian Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding; Tradition and Reflection: Explorations in Indian Thought; and On Being and What There Is: Classical Vaisesika and the History of Indian Ontology; all published by SUNY Press.

Foreword
by Lambert Schmithausen

Introduction
by William Halbfass
An Uncommon Orientalist: Paul Hacker's Passage to India

I. Sankara and the Traditions of Advaita Vedanta: Philological Explorations

1. On Sankara and Advaitism
2. Relations of Early Advaitins of Vaisnavism
3. Sankaracarya and Sankarabhagavatpada: Preliminary Remarks Concerning the Authorship Problem
4. Distinctive Features of the Doctrine and Terminology of Sankara: Avidya, Namarupa, Maya, Isvara
5. Sankara the Yogin and Sankara the Advaitin: Some Observations

II. Nondualism and Its Implications: Understanding and Confrontation

6. The Theory of Degrees of Reality in Advaita Vedanta
7. The Idea of the Person in the Thinking of Vedanta Philosophers
8. Sankara's Conception of Man
9. Being and Spirit in Vedanta
10. Cit and Nous, or the Concept of Spirit in Vedantism and in Neoplatonism

III. Neo-Hinduism and Modern Vedanta: Studies in Reinterpretation

11. Aspects of Neo-Hinduism as Contrasted with Surviving Traditional Hinduism
12. The Concept of Dharma in Neo-Hinduism
13. Schopenhauer and Hindu Ethics
14. Vivekanada's Religious Nationalism
15. A Prasthanatraya Commentary of Neo-Hinduism: Remarks on the Work of Radhakrishnan

Bibliographical Notes on the Texts and Translations

Abbreviations

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.10.1995
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	671 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	0-7914-2581-9 / 0791425819
ISBN-13	978-0-7914-2581-7 / 9780791425817
Zustand	Neuware