Schopenhauer And Indian Philosophy

Author : Arati Barua
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8172112432

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Schopenhauer and Indian Philosophy by Arati Barua Pdf

It is hoped that this book will recreate an interest in Schopenhauer’s philosophy in India and abroad with a new perspective. There is a recent revival of Schopenhauerism or at least a rediscovery of certain very original and fundamental ideas of Schopenhauer in the contemporary academic world. Schopenhauer has been rightly described as a â€Âbridge’ between Western and Indian philosophy. In this regard Prof Kossler (President of Schopenhauer Gesellschaft) writes, â€ÂI think in his (Schopenhauer’s) thinking lies a way of bridging cultural differences but that requires a thorough investigation of the relations between the two, which can only be carried out in co-operation with scientists of both cultures.†Hence, this kind of research-oriented volume will further foster mutual understanding between the Eastern and Western philosophical traditions. Indian philosophy already owes so much to Schopenhauer in the sense that he paid homage to the Vedas, Upanisads and Buddhism. Hence the significance of the book would have to be judged in terms of a tribute to Schopenhauer. It will be an honour to the memory of Schopenhauer, one of the first Western thinkers who brought recognition to Indian Philosophy in the west. The most important aspect of the book is that the list of paper-contributors is composed of an international team which includes selected Schopenhauerian scholars from Australia, Japan, USA, Canada, Germany and India who are working on this theme for a long time. But the significance is that the serious research works of these international scholars will be combined for the first time in one single book. Its specialty lies in the fact that the Indian scholars are participating in a large number in this book.

Author : Arati Barua,Michael Gerhard,Matthias Koßler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110271584

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Understanding Schopenhauer through the Prism of Indian Culture by Arati Barua,Michael Gerhard,Matthias Koßler Pdf

Arthur Schopenhauer was the first Western thinker who incorporated thoughts of the Upanishads in his own philosophy. His appreciation for Indian philosophy and culture is quite well known. Presently serious research work is going on in different disciplines in different academic institutions and universities in the West to examine the influence of Indian philosophy and culture in the philosophical thinking of Germany, particularly in relation to Arthur Schopenhauer and vice versa. This book provides a common platform for interaction to the scholars from East and West to express their views on the link between Eastern and Western philosophy. It significantly contributes to a better understanding not only of the connection between Schopenhauer and Indian philosophical systems but also of the increasing interest in this relation. The book includes papers of eminent scholars. The papers shed new light on the relationship between Schopenhauer's philosophy and the different aspects of Indian philosophy and culture, and thus offer a rich source of research material.

Author : Stephen Cross
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824839086

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Schopenhauer's Encounter with Indian Thought by Stephen Cross Pdf

Schopenhauer is widely recognized as the Western philosopher who has shown the greatest openness to Indian thought and whose own ideas approach most closely to it. This book examines his encounter with important schools of Hindu and Buddhist philosophy and subjects the principal apparent affinities to a careful analysis. Initial chapters describe Schopenhauer’s encounter with Indian thought in the context of the intellectual climate of early nineteenth-century Europe. For the first time, Indian texts and ideas were becoming available and the belief that they could bring about a second Renaissance—an “Oriental Renaissance”—was widespread. Schopenhauer shared in this enthusiasm and for the rest of his life assiduously kept abreast of the new knowledge of India. Principal sections of the book consider the two main pillars of Schopenhauer’s system in relation to broadly comparable ideas found, in the case of Hindu thought, in Advaita Vedānta, and within Buddhism in the Mādhyamika and Yogācāra schools. Schopenhauer’s doctrine of the world as representation, or a flow of impressions appearing in the consciousness of living beings, is first considered. The convergence between this teaching and Indian idealism, especially the doctrine of illusory appearance (māyā), has long been recognized. Schopenhauer himself was aware of it, emphasizing that it was the result not of influence but of a remarkable convergence between Eastern and Western thought. This convergence is subjected to a much more detailed examination than has previously been carried out, undertaken in the light of twentieth-century Indology and recent studies of Schopenhauer. The second main pillar of Schopenhauer’s system, the doctrine of the world as will, is then examined and its relationship to Indian thought explored. This section of the work breaks new ground in the study of Schopenhauer, for although the similarity of his ethical and soteriological teaching to that of Indian religions (particularly Buddhism) has long been noted the underlying reasons for this have not been grasped. It is demonstrated that they are to be found in hitherto unrecognized affinities, of which Schopenhauer himself was largely unaware, between the metaphysics of the will and Indian ideas relating to karmic impressions (vāsanās), the store-consciousness, the causal body, and śakti as the “force” or “energy” that maintains the existence of the world. Final chapters discuss the controversial and difficult question of the relation of the will to final reality in Schopenhauer’s thought in the light of Indian conceptions, and suggest that the two central pillars of his philosophy may be seen, to a greater extent than previously supposed, as a bridge by which the Eastern and Western traditions of philosophical thought may be brought into a closer and more creative relationship.

Author : Douglas L. Berger
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1586842439

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"Veil of Maya, The" by Douglas L. Berger Pdf

Explores the interpretive problems, complexities, and legacies of Schopenhauer’s encounter with ancient India.

Author : Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674792769

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Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy by Rüdiger Safranski Pdf

With equal attention to both the life and work of his subject, Safranski places the visionary skeptic in the context of philosophical predecessors and contemporaries like Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, and explores the sources of Schopenhauer's profound alienation from their "secularized religion of reason."

Author : Patrick Hassan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000512953

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Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy by Patrick Hassan Pdf

This volume brings together internationally recognised Schopenhauer scholars to develop new perspectives on his moral philosophy. Despite anticipating and engaging with many of the arguments now recognisable in Anglophone moral philosophy, Arthur Schopenhauer has often been overlooked as a potential contributor to contemporary discourse within this domain. Not only was he one of the most important 19th-century critics of Kantian deontology, Schopenhauer also developed a plausible moral system of his own grounded in compassion. While interesting parallels can be drawn between his system and the sentimentalist tradition familiar from the likes of Hume and Hutcheson, Schopenhauer’s idiosyncratic metaphysics provide a unique approach to standard questions in moral psychology, the philosophy of action, axiology, and moral epistemology. The chapters in this book draw out the relevance and influence of Schopenhauer’s ethical program, attempting to demonstrate the as yet untapped wealth of conceptual resources for pressing moral problems. They address a wide range of topics, including: the moral status of animals; the moral permissibility of suicide; the possibility of altruistic action; the nature of virtue and asceticism; how Schopenhauer integrated Western influences with various Indian traditions of moral thinking, and more. Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students interested in Schopenhauer, 19th-century philosophy, and the history of ethics.

Author : Arati Barua
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811059544

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Schopenhauer on Self, World and Morality by Arati Barua Pdf

This volume is a unique collection of philosophical essays on various aspects of Schopenhauer's understanding of the nature and character of the world through the classical philosophies of the Vedanta and Buddhism and classical and modern thinkers like Bhartṛhari, Tagore, and Wittgenstein. It includes reflective insights about Schopenhauer and the metaphysics of the world, the self, and morality from scholars who have pioneered the philosophical study of the relation between Schopenhauer and Indian schools of thoughts and intellectual history. This insightful volume is a good academic resource for further research in comparative philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Indian tradition.

Author : Jean W. Sedlar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010820416

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India in the Mind of Germany by Jean W. Sedlar Pdf

Author : R. Raj Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317154419

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Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer by R. Raj Singh Pdf

The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato's Phaedo and the Katha Upanishad and then proceeds to a sustained analysis and critical assessment of the sources and standpoints of a single thinker, Arthur Schopenhauer, whose work comprehensively pursues this problem. Going beyond the well examined western influences on Schopenhauer, Singh offers an in-depth account of Schopenhauer's references to eastern thought and a comprehensive examination of his eastern sources, particularly Vedanta and Buddhism. The book traces the pivotal issue of death through the whole range of Schopenhauer's writings uncovering the deeper connotations of his crucial notion of the will-to-live.

Author : Bart Vandenabeele
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119144809

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A Companion to Schopenhauer by Bart Vandenabeele Pdf

A Companion to Schopenhauer provides a comprehensive guide to all the important facets of Schopenhauer’s philosophy. The volume contains 26 newly commissioned essays by prominent Schopenhauer scholars working in the field today. A thoroughly comprehensive guide to the life, work, and thought of Arthur Schopenhauer Demonstrates the range of Schopenhauer’s work and illuminates the debates it has generated 26 newly commissioned essays by some of the most prominent Schopenhauer scholars working today reflect the very latest trends in Schopenhauer scholarship Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on Schopenhauer’s work Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of knowledge, perception, morality, science, logic and mathematics, Platonic Ideas, the unconscious, aesthetic experience, art, colours, sexuality, will, compassion, pessimism, tragedy, pleasure, and happiness

Author : Johann Joachim Gestering
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015049887873

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German Pessimism and Indian Philosophy by Johann Joachim Gestering Pdf

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486132785

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The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer Pdf

Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought.

Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781624668494

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On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer Pdf

This edition originally published by Berghahn Books. Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne’s definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David Cartwright, a translator’s preface, biographical note, selected bibliography, and an index. For convenient reference to passages in Kant's work discussed by Schopenhauer, Academy edition numbers have been added.

Author : Bradley L. Herling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135501884

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The German Gita by Bradley L. Herling Pdf

How did the Bhagavadgãtà first become an object of German philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles, and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural encounter teach us about the status of comparative philosophy today? This book addresses these questions through a careful study of the figures who read, translated and interpreted the Bhagavadgãtà around the turn of the nineteenth century in Germany: J.G. Herder, F. Majer, F. Schlegel, A.W. Schlegel, W. von Humboldt, and G.W.F. Hegel. Methodologically, the study attends to the intellectual contexts and prejudices that framed the early reception of the text. But it also delves deeper by investigating the way these frameworks inflected the construction of the Bhagavadgãtà and its foundational concepts through the scholarly acts of excerpting, anthologization, and translation. Overall, the project contributes to the pluralization of Western philosophy and its history while simultaneously arguing for a continued critical alertness in cross-cultural comparison of philosophical and religious worldviews.

Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780007466269

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Schopenhauer: Philosophy in an Hour by Paul Strathern Pdf

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Schopenhauer in just one hour.