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19A time of novelty: logic, emotion, and intellectual life in early modern India, 1500–1700 C.E.: by Samuel Wright, New York, USA, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 278, £64.00 (hb), ISBN:9780197568163 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (5): 905-907. 2022.In this bold book, Samuel Wright traces a “new history for Sanskrit logic” via a deep and comprehensive study of almost 5,000 little-known Sanskrit manuscripts. His thesis is that the ear...
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469Against a Mahāyāna Absolute: Why Absolutism Need Not Be a Conclusion of Mahāyāna PhilosophyDissertation, University of Liverpool. 2018.This work will argue that Mahāyāna philosophy need not result in endorsement of some cosmic Absolute in the vein of the Advaitin ātman-Brahman. Scholars such as Bhattacharya, Albahari and Murti argue that the Buddha at no point denied the existence of a cosmic ātman, and instead only denied a localised, individual ātman (what amounts to a jīva). The idea behind this, then, is that the Buddha was in effect an Advaitin, analysing experience and advocating liberation in an Advaitin sense: through…Read more
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