Philosophy and India: Ancestors, Outsiders, and Predecessors

New Delhi: Oxford University Press India (2013)
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This book brings to bear critical perspectives on the major Indian academic philosophers' discussions on the West, modernity, colonialism, classical Indian philosophy, and modern Western philosophy. Through a discussion of the works and influence of philosophers it establishes the strengths and limitations of philosophy as practised in India

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B131.R34 2013

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9780198092230   0198092237   9780199082599

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Gandhi to Western Moral Philosophy

This chapter discusses Akeel Bilgrami, who, without exploring the exemplars from the West, be it Socrates or Christ, offers Gandhi’s views of exemplar as the way out for solving the problems surrounding Western moral philosophy. In this context the chapter points out how this project is an... see more

Epic for Ethics

This chapter problematizes the project of B. K. Matilal, who invokes the epic, the Mahabharata, to derive ethics for Indian philosophy. This is problematic for two reasons. While both Bhattacharyya and Bilgrami point out the limitations in Western philosophy and morality, Matilal strives t... see more

Philosophy in India

This chapter critically evaluates the assessment of the state of philosophy in Indian universities by K. Satchidananda Murty. Though Murty’s canvas of philosophy is broad based, he fails to take into consideration the contributions from the sandhi period, that is, the late nineteenth and e... see more

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