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Item Code: IDG100by GODABARISHA MISHRA SRINIVASA RAOHardcover (Edition: 2003)INDIAN COUNCIL OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH ISBN 8185636737 Language: English Size: 8.8" X 5.8" Pages: 398 Weight of the Book: 620 gms |
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times since 5th Jul, 2010Among the generation philosophers hailing from South India, R. Balasubramanian is a leading figure who has inspired generations of students by his brilliant teaching and writings. He is well acquainted with both the Indian and the Western traditions of philosophy. Besides working very extensively in Advaita Vedanta, he has also contributed significantly to comparative philosophy involving Phenomenology, Existentialism and the philosophy of Wittgenstein. He has been a life-long enquirer and expounder of Advaita and therefore this volume brought out in his honour fittingly contains a good number of essays that extend the range and the level of enquiries in that field-a kind of activity in which he himself has been engaged in his own way throughout his career as a teacher and even after retirement. Besides his views on Advaita, his approaches to Existentialism and Analytic Philosophy also receive close attention in some of the essays. There are also a few attempts to give a bird's-eye view of his extensive work. In brief, this volume is an attempt at showing the vibrancy and vitality of the great philosophical tradition-the darsana parampara- to which we all belong.
About the Author:
Srinivasa Rao retired as Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy from Bangalore University and earlier to it, worked at Mysore University. He is a well known scholar in Advaita and Analytic Philosophy. Besides a few papers, his important publications include Advaita: A Critical Investigation (1985) and Perceptual Error: The Indian Theories (University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1998).
Godabarisha Mishra is Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Madras. He worked as an Editor at Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, Chennai from 1985 to 1988. His specialization is Advaita Vedanta and he has published twenty research articles besides a few books also, including Anubhutiprakasa of Vidyaranya.
| Preface | vii | |
| R. Balasubramanian: A Profile Srinivasa Rao | 1 | |
| 1. | Linguaphobic Epistemology in India: An Appraisal Karl H. Potter | 24 |
| 2. | Predetermination and Free Will in the Teachings of Ramana Maharsi : A Critical Reappraisal Arvind Sharma | 43 |
| 3. | Sankara and Buddhism Sengaku Mayeda | 59 |
| 4. | Sankara and the Vivekacuddamani John Grimes | 73 |
| 5. | From Philosophy to Hermeneutical Pragmatics S. Panneerselvam | 101 |
| 6. | R. Balasubramanian on Philosophy for Liberation G. C. Nayak | 114 |
| 7. | Bhavarupa-Avidya: A New Analysis Bijayananda Kar | 130 |
| 8. | Weaving the Strands: Cognition, authority and Language in Sankara's Upadesasahasri Jacqueline Suthren Hirst | 141 |
| 9. | Can Error Lead to Truth? The Procedural Epistemology of Mandanamisra Jonardon Ganeri | 167 |
| 10. | Ananda-the Notion and the Theme: A Perspective Debabrata Sinha | 178 |
| 11. | The Problematic of Karma and Karmajnanasamuccaya in theBhagavadgitabhasya of Sankaracarya T. S. Rukmani | 191 |
| 12. | R. Balasubramanian on Wittgenstein: The Search for Advaitic Roots R. C. Pradhan | 212 |
| 13. | The Mystery of Subjectivity Ramakant Sinari | 229 |
| 14. | R. Balasubramanian's Critique of Sartre's Theory of Consciousness G. Vedaparayana | 248 |
| 15. | A Critique of some Advaita Concepts in The Naiskarmyasiddhi N. Veezhinathan | 270 |
| 16. | R. Balasubramanian's Views on Indian and Western Phenomenologies: Some Reflections Ramakrishna Puligandla | 292 |
| 17. | R. Balasubramanian's Philosophical Pilgrimage Godabarisha Schmucker | 341 |
| Bibliography | 363 | |
| Contributors | 381 | |
| Index | 388 | |
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