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Anyone concerned with India and its study stands in Halbfass’ debt.” - Philosophy East and West
Halbfass has written a book which is extremely interesting both for the general reader and for the specialist in Indian philosophy. The first will undoubtedly appreciate the effort made by the author to explain clearly problems and attitudes which are unfamiliar to the European philosophical tradition, whereas the second will learn much from the treatment ...
This book examines, above all, the relationship between reason and Vedic revelation, and the philosophical responses to the idea of the Veda. It deals with such topics as dharma, karma and rebirth, the role of man in the universe, the motivation and justification of human actions, the relationship between ritual norms and universal ethics, and reflections on the goals and sources of human knowledge. Helbfass presents previously unknown materials concerning the ...
It is a comprehensive study of some of the most difficult and poorly understood yet-central-issues of classical Indian Philosophy. It covers an amazingly broad range of Texts, explanining and analyzing some materials that have never been studied. It offers a synthetic picture of Vaisesika contology and convincingly explicated its 'genius'. No one has ever explained the concepts of substance, being and universal in Vaisesika as comprehensively and accurately as ...