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" Against a Hindu god : "
Parimal G. Patil
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BL
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654062
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Patil, Parimal G
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Against a Hindu god : : Buddhist philosophy of religion in India /\ Parimal G. Patil
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, c2009
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xi, 406 p. ;; 24 cm
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9780231142229 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0231142226 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780231513074 (ebook)
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: 0231513070 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Comparative philosophy of religions -- Disciplinary challenges -- A grammar for comparison -- Comparative philosophy of religions -- Content, structure, and arguments -- Epistemology -- Religious epistemology in classical India: in defense of a Hindu god -- Interpreting Nyāya epistemology -- The Nyāya argument for the existence of Īśvara -- Defending the Nyāya argument -- Conclusion: Shifting the burden of proof -- Against Īśvara: Ratnakīrti's Buddhist critique -- The Section on pervasion: the trouble with natural relations -- Two arguments -- The Section on the reason property -- The Section on the target property -- Conclusion: Is Īśvara the maker of the world? -- Language, mind, and ontology -- The theory of exclusion, conceptual content, and Buddhist epistemology -- The theory of exclusion -- What exclusion is not -- Semantic value -- Ratnakīrti's inferential argument -- Conclusion: Jñānaśrīmitra's three questions -- Ratnakīrti's world: toward a Buddhist philosophy of everything -- An inventory of mental objects/images -- The contents of perception -- The contents of inferential/verbal awareness -- Nonexistence, existence, and ultimate existence -- The Īśvara-inference, revisited -- Conclusion: Who created the world? -- The values of Buddhist epistemology -- Foundational figures and foundational texts -- The soteriological significance of epistemology -- Jñānaśrīmitra on epistemology as pedagogy -- Ratnakīrti's framework of value -- Conclusion: Religious reasoning as religious practice
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Ratnakīrti
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Knowledge, Theory of (Buddhism)
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God (Hinduism)
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Nyaya
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Religion-- Philosophy
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210
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294.34
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BQ4440.P38 2009
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