A Study of Time In Indian Philosophy
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Detail Of A Study of Time In Indian Philosophy
ISBN | 9788120833746 |
Pages | 208 |
Language: | English |
Size(in cm): | 10.0inch X 6.5 inch cm |
Weight(in grams): | 520(approx) |
Description:
Contents
Preface to the third edition 1
Preface to the Second edition 3
Preface to the first edition 9
Introduction 11
General Background 15
Creation, causality and time 19
I (i) On the Reality of Absolute time the Nyaya vaisesika view 25
(ii) An exchange regarding the idea of present time (vartamana kala) 36
(iii) Is time perceived or inferred? A bebate amongst the Indian realists 39
II (i) Time as aspect of concrete becoming the Sankhya view 44
(ii) Time as instant the Yoga view 48
(iii) Sankhya and Vaisesika on time a comparative note 53
III (i) On time as appearance the advaita Vedanta Appraisal 57
(ii) On refutation of the reality of time 64
(iii) Being as timeless in advaita Vedanta 69
IV (i) Time in Jainism 73
(ii) The Jaina challenge to the Nyaya Vaisesika conception of singular ubiquitous time 77
V (i) The Buddhist idea of instantaneous being 80
(ii) Some internal differences regarding the doctrine of momentariness within the Buddhist tradition 85
(iii) Controversies centering on the Buddhist doctrine of momentariness (ksanikavada) 90
(iv) Annihilation and time a Nyaya Buddhist controversy 96
VI A note on the problem of time in the perspective of philosophy of language and the idea of the timeless as inexpressible 101
VII An overall view of time in Indian philosophy
(i) Time and consciousness 107
(ii) A Comparative note on the concept of instant (ksana) 113
(iii) The Views about time and the problem of change 117
(iv) Being and time 123
VIII (i) The Problem of time an inter cultural perspective 129
(ii) A note on the cyclic and the linear notions of time 140
(iii) Some Parallel ideas in the investigation on time in western philosophy 151
(iv) The Timeless and the temporal paradox and predicament 159
Appendix
Time and the Hindu Experience 165
Philosophers discussed in this work and their approximate dates 185
Bibliography 187
Index 193
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