Details

Reality, Religion, and Passion


Reality, Religion, and Passion

Indian and Western Approaches in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Rupa Gosvami
Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion

von: Jessica Frazier

48,99 €

Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 16.01.2009
ISBN/EAN: 9780739132197
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 278

DRM-geschütztes eBook, Sie benötigen z.B. Adobe Digital Editions und eine Adobe ID zum Lesen.

Beschreibungen

The problem of radical doubt has threatened the commitment to ultimate truth in many cultures and periods. In Reality, Religion, and Passion, Jessica Frazier compares two thinkers who sought to restore philosophy's passion for truth in cultures threatened by the dispassion of radical doubt. In these complementary but divergent philosophies from Europe and India, each grounded in a transcendental metaphysics that sees consciousness as the basis of reality, two different ethics of vitality and passion take shape. Frazier shows how Heidegger's heir, Hans-Georg Gadamer, uses metaphysical insights borrowed from Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Heidegger as the ground for an ethics of 'play' which casts a uniquely positive light on the finitude and flux of the postmodern world-view. Complementing this continental European position, the work of Rupa Gosvami, a poet-theologian of early modern India develops a similar analysis of phenomenal reality into a philosophy not of play, but of passion. From Gadamer's philosophers and poets, to Gosvami's amorous goddess Radha, both visions see salvation in a renewed passion for truth. This journey toward a viable philosophy of life touches on a range of debates in Western philosophy and Indian religion, including the nature of philosophical and religious truths, the perceived goals of philosophy, the history of emotion in reason and religion, and the development of phenomenological accounts of subjectivity. It establishes a model for comparative philosophical methodology, and aims to contribute to a multicultural history of religious and philosophical reasoning. Above all, this book addresses Badiou's challenge to rediscover 'the passion of the real' and Heidegger's injunction to all thinkers to 'seek the word that is able to call one to faith.'
Radical doubt about the truths that govern life has posed a problem for thinkers in many different cultures and periods. This study uncovers the solutions offered by a postmodern Western thinker, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and an early modern Indian thinker, Rupa Gosvami, each of whom offers a renewed postskeptical vision of a revitalized life that is firmly rooted in the transcendental truths of reality.
<br>Chapter 1 Introduction
<br>Chapter 2 Section One: Gadamer's Realisms
<br>Chapter 3
<br>Chapter 1: Gadamer in the Realist Debate
<br>Chapter 4
<br>Chapter 2: Gadamer's Ontology of Telos
<br>Chapter 5
<br>Chapter 3: Gadamer's Ethics of Play
<br>Chapter 6 Section Two: Rupa Gosvami's Realisms
<br>Chapter 7
<br>Chapter 4: The Realist Debate in Indian Philosophy
<br>Chapter 8
<br>Chapter 5: Rupa Gosvami's Ontology of Rasa
<br>Chapter 9
<br>Chapter 6: Rupa Gosvami's Ethics of Passion
<br>Chapter 10 Conclusion
Jessica Frazier is a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

Diese Produkte könnten Sie auch interessieren:

El espíritu de la esperanza
El espíritu de la esperanza
von: Byung-Chul Han, Jordi Llovet, Anselm Kiefer, Ferran Fernández
ZIP ebook
14,99 €
Franz C. Overbeck
Franz C. Overbeck
von: Luca Pellarin
PDF ebook
84,00 €
Esperar
Esperar
von: François-Xavier Bellamy
EPUB ebook
6,99 €