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Reading Bhaṭṭa Jayanta on Buddhist Nominalism

Reading Bhaṭṭa Jayanta on Buddhist Nominalism
1. Auflage, 2017
Reading Bhaṭṭa Jayanta on Buddhist Nominalism engages with an ancient Indian philosophical theory, called the “exclusion theory” (apoha), which was developed by Indian Buddhists from the fifth century of the common era onward. This theory attempts to explain what universals really are and how they are known, yet without accepting that any two real things are identical with each other, or even similar to each other, in any substantial sense. The manifold philosophical problems arising from this seemingly self-contradictory position, and the Buddhist’s ingenious solution to it, exercised most schools of Indian thought for more than seven centuries and caused the Buddhists to continuously refine their theory. The book bases its investigation of the apoha theory on the succinct and accessible discussion of it found in the Nyāyamañjarī, a text by the accomplished author and Nyāya philosopher Bhaṭṭa Jayanta who flourished late in the ninth century of the common era. In its first part, the book presents a careful edition of the original Sanskrit text of this section of the Nyāyamañjarī, along with a clear and annotated English translation of this text, and thus enables the reader to gain a first-hand experience of the topic in a concrete historical form. The second part of this book contains seven articles that discuss important issues that the Buddhist theory of universals had to deal with, including ontological, epistemological and linguistic conundrums, all of which are discussed in Jayanta’s text. These contributions try to answer these questions with different methods, ranging from a critical-historical analysis to the speculative philosophical approach, and often combining them for best results. These articles are arranged according to the date of their main subject matter, structurally following the presentation which Jayanta himself chose, and shine spotlights on stages of the apoha theory’s development from the fifth to eleventh century of the common era. This combination of a complete primary text with scholarly articles exploring several of its topics in more depth is intended to allow the informed reader to approach this important episode in the history of philosophy in an engaging and methodically sound manner, and to present new insights into the history of the apoha theory to the scholarly community.
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A Critical Edition of Bhaṭṭa Jayanta's Nyāyamañjarī
Seite 1 - 34
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The Apoha Section of the Nyāyamañjarī
Seite 35 - 80
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The Qualifier-Qualificand Relation and Coreferentiality
Hideyo Ogawa
Seite 81 - 152
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On vyāvṛtta
Seite 153 - 184
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On Śākyabuddhi´s Interpretation of the Apoha Theory
Seite 185 - 206
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The Introductory Verse of Dharmottara's Apohaprakaraṇa
Seite 207 - 216
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Dharmottara's Notion of āropita
Seite 217 - 250
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Understanding a Philosophical Text
Elisa Freschi
Seite 251 - 290
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Competing Theories of Conceptual Cognition
Seite 291 - 321
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Ausgabe:
978-3-7001-7974-0, Printausgabe, broschiert, 24.11.2017
Ausgabe:
978-3-7001-8244-3, E-Book, digital, 24.11.2017
Auflage:
1. Auflage
Seitenzahl:
321 Seiten
Format:
22,5x15cm
Sprache:
Englisch

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