Schopenhauer's Encounter with Indian Thought : : Representation and Will and Their Indian Parallels /

Schopenhauer's Encounter with Indian Thought : : Representation and Will and Their Indian Parallels / / Stephen Cross.

Schopenhauer is widely recognized as the Western philosopher who has shown the greatest openness to Indian thought and whose own ideas approach most closely to it. This book examines his encounter with important schools of Hindu and Buddhist philosophy and subjects the principal apparent affinities...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Cross, Stephen,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter One: Introduction
  • Chapter Two: Schopenhauer in Context: The "Oriental Renaissance"
  • Chapter Three: Schopenhauer's Indian Sources: Hinduism
  • Chapter Four: Schopenhauer's Indian Sources: Buddhism
  • Chapter Five "Representation": Schopenhauer and the Reality-Status of the World
  • Chapter Six: The Reality-Status of the Empirical World: The Mādhyamika Teaching
  • Chapter Seven: Advaita Vedānta: The World as Illusory Appearance
  • Chapter Eight: Conclusions: Schopenhauer's Representation and Its Indian Affinities
  • Chapter Nine: Schopenhauer's Conception of the World as Will
  • Chapter Ten: Schopenhauer: The Will in Its General Forms (Ideas)
  • Chapter Eleven: Metaphysical Factors behind the Empirical World: Advaita Vedānta
  • Chapter Twelve: The Arising of the Empirical World in Buddhism: The Yogācāra Teaching
  • Chapter Thirteen: Conclusions: Schopenhauer's Will and Comparable Indian Ideas
  • Chapter Fourteen: The Ontological Status of Will
  • Chapter Fifteen: Beyond the Will: "Better Consciousness" and the "Pure Subject of Knowing"
  • Chapter Sixteen: The Hidden Compass: Schopenhauer and the Limits of Philosophy
  • Chapter Seventeen: Schopenhauer and Indian Thought
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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