Uniqueness of Cārvāka Philosophy in Traditional Indian Thought
Author : Bhupender Heera
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
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Category : Lokāyata
ISBN : 9788193607602
Author : Bhupender Heera
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release :
Category : Lokāyata
ISBN : 9788193607602
Author : Bhupender Heera
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Hindu philosophy
ISBN : 9788186921555
Author : Pradīpa Gokhale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199460632
Philosophy in Indian tradition as a purely secular and rational exercise can be located in the Lokāyata/Cārvāka school of Indian philosophy. Due to the lack of substantial literary sources, scholars did not try to explore Lokāyata philosophically. The present work is the first attempt to explore the philosophical energies inherent in the scattered Cārvāka literature through critical and analytical discussions firmly grounded in textual evidences.
Author : Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
Publisher :
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Lokāyata
ISBN :
Author : Rāmakr̥shṇa Bhaṭṭācārya
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0857284339
'Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata' is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and twelfth centuries CE, and which has since disappeared. Despite the paucity of material relating to the Carvaka, a reconstruction of its basic tenets reveals it to be the lone contender standing against the perceived binary of pro-Vedic Brahminical schools on the one hand, and the non-Vedic Buddhist and Jain schools on the other. This study seeks to disprove certain notions about the Carvaka/Lokayata, particularly that the Carvaka-s did not approve of any instrument of cognition other than perception, and that they advocated unalloyed sensualism and hedonism. In contrast, this volume offers evidence to show that the Carvaka-s, despite their difference of opinion in other areas, did admit inference in so far as it was grounded on perception. Furthermore, the author argues that the common belief that 'all materialists are nothing but sensualists' is a misconception, as no authentic Carvaka aphorisms have been cited by the movement's opponents to support this view. This study also seeks to establish the fact that a pre-Carvaka school of materialism existed in India, although there is no way to prove that the Carvaka system grew out of it. Yet if the evidence provided by the 'Manimekalai' - and indirectly supported by the 'Mahabharata' - is admitted, it could be suggested that the two schools existed simultaneously.
Author : Daya Krishna
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN :
Most writings on Indian Philosophy assume that its central concern is with moksa, that the Vedas along with the Upanisadic texts are at the root of it and that it consists of six orthodox systems known as Mimamasa, Vedanta, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Samkhya and Yoga, on the one hand and three unorthodox systems: Buddhism, Jainism and Carvaka, on the other. Besides these, they accept generally the theory of Karma and the theory of Purusartha as parts of what the Indian tradition thinks about human action. The essays in this volume question these assumptions and show that there is little ground for accepting them. A new counter-perspective is thus prepared for the a articulation of the Indian philosophical tradition which breaks the traditional frame in which it has usually been presented.
Author : Madhava Acharya
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385407095
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Rajendra Prasad
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9788180695957
Contributed articles.
Author : Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791441718
Addresses the psycho-physical dualism of the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy with references to both Indian and Western philosophy.
Author : Pradīpa Gokhale
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Lokāyata
ISBN : 9780199085507
Philosophy in Indian tradition as a purely secular and rational exercise can be located in the Lokāyata/Cārvāka school of Indian philosophy. Due to the lack of substantial literary sources, scholars did not try to explore Lokāyata philosophically. The present work is the first attempt to explore the philosophical energies inherent in the scattered Cārvāka literature through critical and analytical discussions firmly grounded in textual evidences.