Why Is There I Rather Than It?

Ontology of the Subject in the Upaniṣads

Marta Kudelska (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2021
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-83879-2 (ISBN)

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lt;p>While this book is a publication on Indian philosophy, addressing the problem of subjectivity in the Upanisads from the perspective of Advaita Vedanta's ontological assumptions, it makes an interesting reading for a wider group of readers, including philosophers of metaphysics, orientalists, and religious and cultural researchers.

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The book explores one of the most important problems in Indian philosophical thought: the subject in its particular relation to the world. In what sense does the subject exist? How does it constitute the world? The analysis hinges on Sanskrit sources, mainly the Upanis. ads. However, it goes beyond the question of the subject. The book discusses the concept of how the subject establishes the world, which - in this cognitive perspective - becomes simultaneously recognised and deformed. Overcoming these deformations becomes a specific soteriological path.

lt;p>Marta Kudelska is a professor of philosophy and translator of Sanskrit philosophical texts. Her research interests revolve around fundamental metaphysical questions posed since ancient times in the philosophical thought of India, particularly within the Brahmanical tradition. In her research, she also deals with interreligious and cross-cultural dialogue and the reception of classical thought in the formation of contemporary social and cultural attitudes.

lt;p>sat - sufficient reason - Advaita Vedanta - subject constituting the world - Mandukya Karika - luminous reality - erroneous perception

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Philosophy, History of Ideas and Modern Societies ; 21
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Jan Hartman
Überarbeitung	Rafał Szklarski
Übersetzer	Marta Bręgiel-Pant
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	441 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Schlagworte	Advaita Vedanta • Advaita Vedānta • Anna • Bregiel • Bręgiel • Drabczyk • erroneous perception • Hartman • Kudelska • luminous reality • Mandukya Karika • Māṇḍūkya Kārikā • Marta • Ontology • pant • Paulina • Rafal • Rafał • sat - sufficient reason • sat – sufficient reason • Subject • subject constituting the world • Szklarski • Tendera • Upanisads • Upaniṣads • Upanishads
ISBN-10	3-631-83879-4 / 3631838794
ISBN-13	978-3-631-83879-2 / 9783631838792
Zustand	Neuware