Schopenhauer's encounter with Indian thought

Cross, Stephen.

Schopenhauer's encounter with Indian thought representation and will and their Indian parallels / [electronic resource] : Stephen Cross. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013. - xiv, p. - Monograph / Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy ; no. 24 . - Monograph ... of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy ; no. 24. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Schopenhauer in context: the "oriental renaissance" -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Hinduism -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Buddhism -- "Representation": Schopenhauer and the reality-status of the world -- The reality-status of the empirical world: the Mādhyamika teaching -- Advaita Vedānta: the world as illusory appearance -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's doctrine of representation and its Indian affinities -- Schopenhauer's conception of the world as will -- Schopenhauer: the will in its general forms (ideas) -- Metaphysical factors behind the empirical world: Advaita Vedānta -- The arising of the empirical world in Buddhism: the Yogācāra teaching -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's will and comparable Indian ideas -- The ontological status of will -- Beyond the will: "better consciousness" and the "pure subject of knowing" -- The hidden compass: Schopenhauer and the limits of philosophy --Schopenhauer and Indian thought.


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Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.


Hindu philosophy.
Buddhist philosophy.
Will.
Representation (Philosophy)


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