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Zusatztext An interesting and important contribution to the scholarship of Indian philosophy ... I believe the book has made an excellent case for treating Indian philosophy as philosophy ... it is required reading for anyone in the Western tradition concerned with Indian philosophy! and for anyone interested in pursuing the thesis of an incompatibility of Western and Indian philosophical thought. Klappentext In this book, Professor Mohanty develops a new interpretation of the nature of Indian philosophical thinking. Using the original Sanskrit sources, he examines the concepts of consciousness and subjectivity, and the theories of meaning and truth, and explicates the concept of theoretical rationality which underlies the Indian philosophies. The author brings to bear insights from modern Western analytical and phenomenological philosophies, not with a view to instituting direct comparisons, but in order to interpret Indian thinking. In doing so, he highlights some of its very distinctive features. Zusammenfassung Explores Indian thinking through the fundamental concepts which underlie it. Concepts discussed include consciousness and subjectivity, language and meaning, and logic and truth. To aid interpretation, insights from modern Western analytical and phenomenological philosophies are brought to bear. Inhaltsverzeichnis Indian philosophy, between tradition and modernity; Consciousness and knowledge; Language and meaning; The nature of Indian logic; Indian theories of truth: their common framework; The concept of being and the ontologies; Time, history, man, and nature; Remarks on the Praman Theory; The nature of Indian philosophical thinking
