Advaita: A Contemporary Critique

Delhi, IN: Oxford University Press India (2011)
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This book offers a comprehensive critique of Advaita, which is very contemporary in its outlook, analysis, and technique. It supplements the classical Indian analysis with many special concepts and techniques extensively used in contemporary Western logic and analytic philosophy.

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B132.A3.S65 2012

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9780198079811   0198079818   9780199081707
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Re-stating the Obvious

This chapter briefly summarizes the stand taken in this book. It consists of the rejection of the ontology and metaphysics of avidyā and māyā; of the thesis that our experience of the world is illusory in which we experience “false objects”; of the idea that anātman is a false entity of so... see more

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