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OBERHAMMER Gerhard
Materialien zur Geschichte der Rāmānuja-Schule IX

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Der Ātmā als Subjekt in der Theologie Rāmānujas
Publisher: VÖAW
Format: 161 Seiten, 22,5x15cm, broschiert
Serial:  Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse  775
Serial:  Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Sprachen und Kulturen Südasiens  39
ISBN13: 978-3-7001-6500-2

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The ninth volume of the Materialien zur Geschichte der Rāmānuja-Schule" tries for the first time to systematically investigate Rāmānuja's philosophical-theological teaching on the Ātmā as a sentient subject, which in his work is dealt with in various places and in the context of various issues. The investigation has revealed that Rāmānuja adopts the reflections on the Ātmā as are taught by Yāmunamuni in his Ātmasiddhih, although these teachings have not been fully worked out. However, in integrating the Ātmā into his theological view of the Brahma, Rāmānuja considers the Ātmā mainly as a relational prinicple in human beings that, in the end, becomes the "place" of possible revelation and thus the "place" of human "religion". It is noteworthy that the Ātmā thus becomes ontologicallyy a relational unit with the divine Ātmā, in which monism is avoided due to an "ontological difference" between the divine and human beings. The second section of the volume is devoted to the reception of Rāmānuja's philosophical-theological reflections on the human subject. This section offers a translation of and commentary on the chapter about the Ātmā in Nārāyanārya's Nītimālā (12th cent.) as well as portions of Meghanādārisūri's portrayal of the Ātmā in his Nayadyumanih. A paradigm shift can be seen thereby, due to their falling back on Yāmunamuni's Ātmasiddhih: a scholastic "treatise on the soul was developed out of Rāmānuja's philosophical-theological reflections on this subject. more...

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