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Against a Hindu god : Buddhist philosophy of religion in India
- Title
- Against a Hindu god : Buddhist philosophy of religion in India / Parimal G. Patil.
- Author
- Patil, Parimal G.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 406 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Comparative philosophy of religions -- Disciplinary challenges -- A grammar for comparison -- Comparative philosophy of religions -- Content, structure, and arguments -- Epistemology -- Religious epistemology in classical India: in defense of a Hindu god -- Interpreting Nyāya epistemology -- The Nyāya argument for the existence of Īśvara -- Defending the Nyāya argument -- Conclusion: Shifting the burden of proof -- Against Īśvara: Ratnakīrti's Buddhist critique -- The Section on pervasion: the trouble with natural relations -- Two arguments -- The Section on the reason property -- The Section on the target property -- Conclusion: Is Īśvara the maker of the world? -- Language, mind, and ontology -- The theory of exclusion, conceptual content, and Buddhist epistemology -- The theory of exclusion -- What exclusion is not -- Semantic value -- Ratnakīrti's inferential argument -- Conclusion: Jñānaśrīmitra's three questions -- Ratnakīrti's world: toward a Buddhist philosophy of everything -- An inventory of mental objects/images -- The contents of perception -- The contents of inferential/verbal awareness -- Nonexistence, existence, and ultimate existence -- The Īśvara-inference, revisited -- Conclusion: Who created the world? -- The values of Buddhist epistemology -- Foundational figures and foundational texts -- The soteriological significance of epistemology -- Jñānaśrīmitra on epistemology as pedagogy -- Ratnakīrti's framework of value -- Conclusion: Religious reasoning as religious practice.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-3735
- ISBN
- 9780231142229 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231142226 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008047445
- OCLC
- 268547511
- Author
- Patil, Parimal G.
- Title
- Against a Hindu god : Buddhist philosophy of religion in India / Parimal G. Patil.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-3735