Advaita Vedānta : : A Philosophical Reconstruction / / Eliot Deutsch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Deutsch, Eliot,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: East-West Center Press
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 p.)

Advaita Vedanta is the most important philosophical system in India. It involves a discipline of spiritual experience as well as a technical philosophy, and since the time of Samkara in the ninth century some of the greatest intellects in India have contributed to its development.In his reconstruction of Advaita Vedanta, Eliot Deutsch has lifted the system out of its historical/cultural context and has concentrated attention on those ideas which have enduring philosophical value. He has sought to formulate systematically one's understanding of what is of universal philosophical interest in Vedantic thought. Professor Deutsch's work covers the basic metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical ideas of Vedanta.Students and scholars of Western as well as of Indian philosophy will be interested in the lucid, organized manner in which the material is presented and in the fresh interpretations given. The book is written in a critical rather than simply "pious" spirit and should thus also be of interest to anyone interested in deepening his or her appreciation and understanding of the richness of Indian thought.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Brahman -- 2 Levels of Being -- 3 Brahman and the World -- 4 The Self -- 5 Karma -- 6 Aspects of Advaitic Epistemology -- 7 Advaitic Ethics -- 8 Moksa and Jnana-Yoga -- Bibliography -- Index