Against a Hindu god: Buddhist philosophy of religion in India

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 Nyā...

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主要作者: Patil, Parimal G. (Author)
格式: Print 圖書
語言:English
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出版: New York[u.a.] Columbia Univ. Press 2009
In:Year: 2009
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 印度 / 宗教哲學 / 佛教
B 印度 / 佛教哲學 / 神存在的提問 / 知識論
Further subjects:B Ratnakīrti
B 宗教 Philosophy
B God (Hinduism)
B Nyaya
B Knowledge, Theory of (Buddhism)
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總結: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
實物描述:XI, 406 S.
ISBN:0231513070