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University of British Columbia
Department of Philosophy

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APA Western Division

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Vancouver, Canada

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Areas of Specialization

Indian Philosophy

Asian Philosophy

Philosophy of Mind

Areas of Interest

Asian Philosophy

Visual Imagery and Imagination

Indian Aesthetics

Perception and Phenomenology

Modern Indian Philosophy

Death and Dying

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Māyā and Mokṣa: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Spiritual Philosophy as a Vedāntin Critique of Kant
Nalini Bhushan and Jay Garfield

Philosophy East and West 74 (1): 3-25. 2024.

Abstract:Subject As Freedom (1930) is correctly regarded as Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's magnum opus. But this text relies on a set of ideas and develops from a set of concerns that KCB develops more explicitly in essays written both before and after that text, which might be regarded as its intellectual bookends. These ideas are important and fascinating in their own right. They also illuminate KCB's engagement with Kant and with the Vedānta tradition as well as his understanding of freedom i…Read more
Abstract:Subject As Freedom (1930) is correctly regarded as Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's magnum opus. But this text relies on a set of ideas and develops from a set of concerns that KCB develops more explicitly in essays written both before and after that text, which might be regarded as its intellectual bookends. These ideas are important and fascinating in their own right. They also illuminate KCB's engagement with Kant and with the Vedānta tradition as well as his understanding of freedom itself, including its soteriological dimension. These two essays are "Sankara's Doctrine of Māyā" (1930) and "The Advaita and Its Spiritual Significance" (1936). We explore KCB's conception of philosophy and its relation to spiritual practice through a close reading of these two essays.