Rediscovering God with Trancendental Argument: A Contemparary Interpretation of Monistic Kashmiri Save Philosophy
Lawrence, David Peter
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Book ID : 5703
ISBN-10 : 81-7030-659-0 / 8170306590
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7030-659-7 / 9788170306597
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2000
Edition : (First Indian Edition)
Language : English
With foreword by Paul J. Griffiths and Lature L. Patton; xvii, 306p., Bib., Abb., Index, 24 cm. (Sri Garib Das Oriental Series No. 252)
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. Introduction 2. Interpretive Histories and the Scope of this Study 3. The Task of the Pratyabhijna System 4. The Challenge of the Buddhist Opponents 5. A Summary of the Saiva Theory of Recognition 6. Epistemological Applications of the Theory of Recognition 7. Features of the Ontology of Recognition 8. Conclusion
DESCRIPTION
Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument provides a comparative philosophical st of the Pratyabhijna system of the medieval Kashmir Saiva thinkers Utpaladeva Abhinavagupta. Beginning with intensive descriptive and prescriptive reflections on nature of philosophy itself, the book examines the special characteristics of the Pratyabh discourse as both philosophical apologetics and spiritual exercise. Lawrence situates Pratyabhijna speculation within the larger context of Hindu and Buddhist deliberations al-the role of interpretation in experience, and gives a groundbreaking exposition of the epi tnology and ontology of Siva's self-recognition. He observes the similarities and difterci of the Pratyabhijna with Christian understandings of the divine logos, and argues l the Saiva philosophy elucidates a cogent way of demonstrating the reality of God aga contemporary relativism, deconsiructionism and other forms of skepticism.
