Indian Philosophy : A Counter Perspective

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Indian Philosophy : A Counter Perspective
Daya Krishna, Sri Satguru Pub, 2006, Reprint, xviii, 595 p, ISBN :
81-7030-845-3, $45.00 ()

Contents: Preface. 1. Is Indian philosophy 'theological' in character? 2.
Three myths about Indian philosophy. 3. Three conceptions of Indian
philosophy. 4. Indian philosophy and moksa: revisiting an old controversy.
5. The Vedic corpus: some questions. 6. The Vedic corpus and the two
sutra-text, concerned with it; the Mimamsa Sutra and the Brahma Sutra. 7.
The Upanisads-what are they? 8. The Yoga-Sutras: the undeciphered text
anomalies, problems and paradoxes. 9. Yajna and the doctrine of karma-a
contradiction in Indian thought about action. 10. Apoha and Samavaya in
Kantian perspective. 11. The text of the Nyaya-Sutras: some problems. 12.
Prasastapada's mapping of the realm of qualities: a neglected chapter in
Indian philosophy. 13. Is Isvarakrsna's Samkhya-Karika really Samkhyan? 14.
Vedanta-does it really mean anything? 15. Adhyasa-a non-Advaitic beginning
in Samkara Vedanta. 16. The myth of the Purusarthas. 17. Rasa-the bane of
Indian aesthetics. 18. Consciousness, materiality and spirituality: issues,
dilemmas and the future of mankind. 19. Bondage of birth and death: emerging
technologies of freedom on the horizon and the hope of final release from
the foundational bondage of mankind. Annexures. Index
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