Free will, agency, and selfhood in Indian philosophy
Title:
Free will, agency, and selfhood in Indian philosophy
Author:
Dasti, Matthew R., editor of compilation.
ISBN:
9780199922741
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Agency in Samkhya and Yoga / Edwin F. Bryant -- Free Persons, Empty Selves / Karin Meyers -- Free Will and Volunteerism in Jainism / Christopher Key Chapple -- Paninian Grammarians on Agency and Independence / George Cardona -- Nyaya's Self as Agent and Knower / Matthew R. Dasti -- Freedom Because of Duty / Elisa Freschi -- Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose / Jay L. Garfield -- Self, Causation, and Agency in the Advaita of Sankara / Sthaneshwar Timalsina -- The Linguistics and Cosmology of Agency in Nondual Kashmiri Saiva Thought -- Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Ramanuja / Martin Ganeri -- Dependent Agency and Hierarchical Determinism in the Theology of Madhva / David Buchta -- Agency in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Tradition / Satyanarayana Dasa and Jonathan B. Edelmann.
Abstract:
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.
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