Desire And Motivation In Indian Philosophy

Author : Christopher G. Framarin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
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Release : 2009-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134043439

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Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy by Christopher G. Framarin Pdf

Desireless action is typically cited as a criterion of the liberated person in classical Indian texts. Contemporary authors argue with near unanimity that since all action is motivated by desire, desireless action is a contradiction. They conclude that desireless action is action performed without certain desires; other desires are permissible. In this book, the author surveys the contemporary literature on desireless action and argues that the arguments for the standard interpretation are unconvincing. He translates, interprets, and evaluates passages from a number of seminal classical Sanskrit texts, and argues that the doctrine of desireless action should indeed be taken literally, as the advice to act without any desire at all. The author argues that the theories of motivation advanced in these texts are not only consistent, but plausible. This book is the first in-depth analysis of the doctrine of desireless action in Indian philosophy. It serves as a reference to both contemporary and classical literature on the topic, and will be of interest to scholars of Indian philosophy, religion, the Bhagavadgita and Hinduism.

Author : Christopher G. Framarin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134043446

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Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy by Christopher G. Framarin Pdf

This book advances an original interpretation of the orthodox Indian theories of motivation in light of the Indian prohibition on desire and evaluates its consequences for Indian ethics and soteriology.

Author : Jonardon Ganeri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199314621

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The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy by Jonardon Ganeri Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy tells the story of philosophy in India through a series of exceptional individual acts of philosophical virtuosity. It brings together forty leading international scholars to record the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute philosophy in the geographical region of the Indian subcontinent, a region sometimes nowadays designated South Asia. The volume aims to be ecumenical, drawing from different locales, languages, and literary cultures, inclusive of dissenters, heretics and sceptics, of philosophical ideas in thinkers not themselves primarily philosophers, and reflecting India's north-western borders with the Persianate and Arabic worlds, its north-eastern boundaries with Tibet, Nepal, Ladakh and China, as well as the southern and eastern shores that afford maritime links with the lands of Theravda Buddhism. Indian Philosophy has been written in many languages, including Pali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Persian, Kannada, Punjabi, Hindi, Tibetan, Arabic and Assamese. From the time of the British colonial occupation, it has also been written in English. It spans philosophy of law, logic, politics, environment and society, but is most strongly associated with wide-ranging discussions in the philosophy of mind and language, epistemology and metaphysics (how we know and what is there to be known), ethics, metaethics and aesthetics, and metaphilosophy. The reach of Indian ideas has been vast, both historically and geographically, and it has been and continues to be a major influence in world philosophy. In the breadth as well as the depth of its philosophical investigation, in the sheer bulk of surviving texts and in the diffusion of its ideas, the philosophical heritage of India easily stands comparison with that of China, Greece, the Latin west, or the Islamic world.

Author : Giovanni Ciotti,Alastair Gornall,Paolo Visigalli
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782974154

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Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions by Giovanni Ciotti,Alastair Gornall,Paolo Visigalli Pdf

Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures with papers covering a variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of the region. Focusing on textual sources in the languages in which they were composed, different disciplinary perspectives are offered on intellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism and religious studies.

Author : Christopher G. Framarin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317918943

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Hinduism and Environmental Ethics by Christopher G. Framarin Pdf

This book argues that the standard arguments for and against the claim that certain Hindu texts and traditions attribute direct moral standing to animals and plants are unconvincing. It presents careful, extensive, and original interpretations of passages from the Manusmrti (law), the Mahābhārata (literature), and the Yogasūtra (philosophy), and argues that these texts attribute direct moral standing to animals and plants for at least three reasons: they are sentient, they are alive, and they possess a range of other relevant attributes and abilities. This book is of interest to scholars of Hinduism and the environment, religion and the environment, Hindu and/or Buddhist philosophy more broadly, and environmental ethics.

Author : Neil Sinhababu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191086472

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Humean Nature by Neil Sinhababu Pdf

Neil Sinhababu defends the Humean Theory of Motivation, according to which desire drives all human action and practical reasoning. Desire motivates us to pursue its object, makes thoughts of its object pleasant or unpleasant, focuses attention on its object, and is amplified by vivid representations of its object. These aspects of desire explain a vast range of psychological phenomena - why motivation often accompanies moral belief, how intentions shape our planning, how we exercise willpower, what it is to be a human self, how we express our emotions in action, why we procrastinate, and what we daydream about. Some philosophers regard such phenomena as troublesome for the Humean Theory, but the properties of desire help Humeans provide simpler and better explanations of these phenomena than their opponents can. The success of the Humean Theory in explaining a wide range of folk-psychological and experimental data, including those that its opponents cite in counterexamples, suggest that it is true. And the Humean Theory has revolutionary consequences for ethics, suggesting that moral judgments are beliefs about what feelings like guilt, admiration, and hope accurately represent in objective reality.

Author : Wilhelm Halbfass
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788120807365

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India and Europe by Wilhelm Halbfass Pdf

This book explores the intellectual encounter of India and the West from pre-Alexandrian antiquity until the present. It examines India's role in European philosophical thought, as well as the reception of European philosophy in Indian t

Author : Dr. Mahesh Kumar Singh
Publisher : K.K. Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy by Dr. Mahesh Kumar Singh Pdf

A CRITICAL SURVEY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Indian philosophy distinctly exhibits a spiritual bent. The essence of religion is not dogmatic in India. Here, religion develops as philosophy progressively scales higher planes. Some of the fundamentals expressed in the Indian philosophy and the Western philosophy may be similar. However, Indian philosophy differs from the Western philosophy on several counts. While the Western philosophy deals with metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics etc. separately, Indian philosophy takes a comprehensive view of all these topics. Indian philosophy is distinctive in its application of analytical rigour to metaphysical problems and goes into very precise detail about the nature of reality, the structure and function of the human psyche and how the relationship between the two have important implications for human salvation. Rishis centred philosophy on an assumption that there is a unitary underlying order in the universe which is all pervasive and omniscient. The efforts by various schools were concentrated on explaining this order and the metaphysical entity at its source. The concept of natural law provided a basis for understanding questions of how life on earth should be lived. The sages urged humans to discern this order and to live their lives in accordance with it. This book contains plenty of substance for scholars, but the writing has the verve and clarity to seize and entertain the general reader as well. Contents: • Niskamakarma and Lokasamgraha • Good, Right, Justice • Ethical Cognitivism and Non-Cognitivism • Ethical Realism and Intuitionism • The Formula of the Universal Law of Nature • The Existence of Human Rights

Author : Roy W. Perrett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0815336128

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Indian Philosophy: Theory of value by Roy W. Perrett Pdf

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : V. Ramakrishna Rao,Vetury Ramakrishna Rao
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8170990009

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Selected Doctrines from Indian Philosophy by V. Ramakrishna Rao,Vetury Ramakrishna Rao Pdf

Author : Roy W. Perrett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521853569

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An Introduction to Indian Philosophy by Roy W. Perrett Pdf

Thematically structured, wide-ranging and philosophically rigorous, including details of Indian arguments and their theoretical motivations. An essential resource for undergraduate students.

Author : C. Ram-Prasad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781403913739

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Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thou by C. Ram-Prasad Pdf

Classical Indian schools of philosophy undertake major debates on a variety of issues with the formal aim of attaining a supreme end to existence - liberation from the cycle of lives. This book looks at four conceptions of liberation and the way analytic inquiry and philosophical knowledge are held to lead in its attainment. The central motivation of Indian philosophy - the quest for the Highest Good - is recognised but also situated in the rigorous and analytic philosophical activity of these thinkers.

Author : Babaji Bob Kindler,Lex Hixon,Annapurna Sarada,Sharad Chandra
Publisher : Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda Associations
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Nectar #12 by Babaji Bob Kindler,Lex Hixon,Annapurna Sarada,Sharad Chandra Pdf

There are innumerable ways of cultivating life’s many abundant harvests, but none more fruitful, fulfilling and freeing than a regimen of sedulous striving in the realm of spiritual practice. Why is this so? Assuredly, nothing other than purification of mind can facilitate the most subtle and sought after freedom that the human being longs for, either consciously, secretly or unconsciously. And this purification is achieved via sadhana, spiritual disciplines prescribed by an adept and esteemed religious preceptor according to revealed scripture, which cuts every man and woman in the image of abiding perfection inherent in each individual. Every man, Shiva incarnate, desires to break free of all the binding fetters of life and mind, but life itself is predicated upon a duality-fraught existence created by the manifold mind. Each woman, Shakti in manifest form, dreams of a life shorn of its weights and limitations, but the restrictive modes of nature and the constricting conventions of church, family and society unwittingly fashion the very chains that bind existence into painfully predictable scenarios and boring rounds of sleepy and sterile routine. Given this conundrum, it is no wonder that the key of innate spirituality and its superlative aim is held out again and again, from age to age and lifetime to lifetime, by truly compassionate beings who have tasted freedom and spare no efforts in order to share it with suffering humanity. And they often initiate the process of its discovery in seeking and suffering beings by pointing out the need for an intense yearning to be free. “Cry, oh mind, with a real cry,” sings Ramprasad Sen, “and the Mother of the Universe will not be able to withhold Her sweet Presence from you any longer.” “Beings cry jugs of tears for mates, money and materials,” states Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, “but shed not one tear for God.” Furthermore, our intense yearning to be free must lead us straightaway to the path, the teacher and the specific formula for the attainment of divine life which best suits each individual’s karmas, abilities, and capacities. The thorough breakdown of all that impedes — doubt, fear, misconception, inordinate desire — is brought to bear in life by the cultivation of spirituality via hands-on practice. Without it, there adheres in the mental body a whole host of various forms of attachment, call them what you will, many of them masquerading meekly as freedom. As Sri Shankaracharya poignantly puts it: “When I was a baby I was attached to my mother’s breast; when I was a young man I was attached to a young woman; when I was old I was attached to anxiety; but to the Supreme Brahman, alas, I was never attached."

Author : Christopher G. Framarin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317918950

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Hinduism and Environmental Ethics by Christopher G. Framarin Pdf

This book argues that the standard arguments for and against the claim that certain Hindu texts and traditions attribute direct moral standing to animals and plants are unconvincing. It presents careful, extensive, and original interpretations of passages from the Manusmrti (law), the Mahābhārata (literature), and the Yogasūtra (philosophy), and argues that these texts attribute direct moral standing to animals and plants for at least three reasons: they are sentient, they are alive, and they possess a range of other relevant attributes and abilities. This book is of interest to scholars of Hinduism and the environment, religion and the environment, Hindu and/or Buddhist philosophy more broadly, and environmental ethics.

Author : Matthew R. Dasti,Edwin F. Bryant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199922734

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Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy by Matthew R. Dasti,Edwin F. Bryant Pdf

Focusing on the rich and variegated cluster of Indic philosophical traditions as they developed from the late Vedic period up to the pre-modern period, this book offers an understanding, according to each school, of the nature of free will and agency.