CONCEALED ART OF THE SOUL:THEORIES SELF PRACTICES TRUTH INDIAN ETHIC EPIST PAPER: Theories of the Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology - Tapa blanda

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9780199658596: CONCEALED ART OF THE SOUL:THEORIES SELF PRACTICES TRUTH INDIAN ETHIC EPIST PAPER: Theories of the Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology
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ISBN 10: 0199658595 ISBN 13: 9780199658596
Editorial: Oxford University Press, 2012

Sinopsis

In The Concealed Art of the Soul, Jonardon Ganeri presents a variety of perspectives on the nature of the self as seen by major schools of classical Indian philosophy.

For Indian thinkers, a philosophical treatise about the self should not only reveal the truth about the nature of the soul, but should also engage the reader in a process of study and contemplation that will eventually lead to self-transformation. By combining careful attention to philosophical content and sensitivity to literary form, Ganeri deepens our understanding of some of the greatest works in Indian literary history. His magisterial survey includes the Upanisads, the Buddha's discourses, the epic Mahabharata, and the writings of Candrakirti, whose work was later to provide the foundation for Tibetan Buddhism.

Ganeri argues that many Western theories of selfhood are not only present in, but are developed to high degree of sophistication in these writings, and that there are other ideas about the self found in the work of classical Indian thinkers which present-day analytic philosophers have not yet begun to explore.

Scholars and students of philosophy and religious studies, particularly those with an interest in Indian and Western conceptions of the self, will find this book fascinating reading.

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Jonardon Ganeri is a philosopher who draws upon Indian, European and Ango-American sources in his work. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He read Mathematics at Cambridge before commencing graduate studies in Philosophy at London and Oxford. He has been a Jacobsen Fellow in Philosophy at King's College London and a Spalding Fellow at Clare Hall Cambridge. As well as teaching at various Universities in Britain, he has held visiting professorships at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania.


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Oxford University Press
Año de publicación
2012
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ISBN 10 
0199658595
ISBN 13 
9780199658596
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