Philology and confrontation : Paul Hacker on traditional and modern Vedānta
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Philology and confrontation : Paul Hacker on traditional and modern Vedānta
State University of New York Press, c1995
- : pbk
- : CH
Available at 15 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references index
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Table of Contents
Foreword
by Lambert Schmithausen
Introduction
by William Halbfass
An Uncommon Orientalist: Paul Hacker's Passage to India
I. Sankara and the Traditions of Advaita Vedanta: Philological Explorations
1. On Sankara and Advaitism
2. Relations of Early Advaitins of Vaisnavism
3. Sankaracarya and Sankarabhagavatpada: Preliminary Remarks Concerning the Authorship Problem
4. Distinctive Features of the Doctrine and Terminology of Sankara: Avidya, Namarupa, Maya, Isvara
5. Sankara the Yogin and Sankara the Advaitin: Some Observations
II. Nondualism and Its Implications: Understanding and Confrontation
6. The Theory of Degrees of Reality in Advaita Vedanta
7. The Idea of the Person in the Thinking of Vedanta Philosophers
8. Sankara's Conception of Man
9. Being and Spirit in Vedanta
10. Cit and Nous, or the Concept of Spirit in Vedantism and in Neoplatonism
III. Neo-Hinduism and Modern Vedanta: Studies in Reinterpretation
11. Aspects of Neo-Hinduism as Contrasted with Surviving Traditional Hinduism
12. The Concept of Dharma in Neo-Hinduism
13. Schopenhauer and Hindu Ethics
14. Vivekanada's Religious Nationalism
15. A Prasthanatraya Commentary of Neo-Hinduism: Remarks on the Work of Radhakrishnan
Bibliographical Notes on the Texts and Translations
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Index
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