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The theory of universals that was developed and upheld by Buddhist philosophers in premodern India since the sixth century CE is famous for its central claim that any judgment of a similarity between things is due not to anything substantially real that the things share, but to their difference from other things ("anyāpoha"). This book investigates the theory as it is presented in the "Apohasiddhi", a work written by the Buddhist monk and teacher Ratnakīrti in the eleventh century, during the last flowering of philosophical activity in Indian Buddhism.
Buddhist logic --- Knowledge, Theory of (Buddhism) --- Buddhism --- Buddhist epistemology --- Theory of knowledge (Buddhism) --- Buddhism --- Buddhist philosophy
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Die „Proceedings of the Fifth International Dharmakirti Conference” (Heidelberg, August 2014) beschäftigen sich mit der erkenntnistheoretisch-logischen Schule des Buddhismus – einer lange währenden Tradition, die innerhalb des heilstheoretischen Rahmens des Buddhismus die Analyse von Erkenntnis, Schlussfolgerung und Beweis in das Zentrum ihrer theoretischen Bemühungen stellte und dabei das Werk des indisch-buddhistischen Erkenntnistheoretikers und Logikers Dharmakirti (6.-7. Jhd. u. Z.) zugrundelegte. Methoden und Ansätze dieser Schule wurden durch das intellektuelle Umfeld des mittelalterlichen Indien mit seiner Wechselwirkung unterschiedlicher religiös-philosophischer Strömungen geprägt und beeinflussten die Geistesgeschichte des tibetischen Buddhismus nachhaltig; sie wurden auch in China und Japan rezipiert. Die 30 Beiträge zu diesem Band stellen eine Momentaufnahme einer internationalen Forschungslandschaft mit Zentren in Wien und Japan dar. Sie befassen sich mit historischen und philologischen Problemen, die durch wichtige rezente Manuskriptfunde aufgeworfen werden, verfolgen Forschungsfragen aus der Geschichte der Philosophie und unternehmen philosophische Rekonstruktion und kritische Überprüfung einzelner Theorien und Argumente. Indem der Band den Schwerpunkt auf Strömungen aus Asien richtet, die rigorose philosophische Methoden entwickelten und systematisch zur Anwendung brachten, leistet er einen Beitrag zur Ausbildung eines besser fundierten globalen Geschichtsbewusstseins im Bereich der Philosophie.
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Reading Bhaṭṭa Jayanta on Buddhist Nominalism engages with an ancient Indian philosophical theory, called the “exclusion theory” (apoha), which was developed by Indian Buddhists from the fifth century of the common era onward. This theory attempts to explain what universals really are and how they are known, yet without accepting that any two real things are identical with each other, or even similar to each other, in any substantial sense. The manifold philosophical problems arising from this seemingly self-contradictory position, and the Buddhist’s ingenious solution to it, exercised most schools of Indian thought for more than seven centuries and caused the Buddhists to continuously refine their theory. The book bases its investigation of the apoha theory on the succinct and accessible discussion of it found in the Nyāyamañjarī, a text by the accomplished author and Nyāya philosopher Bhaṭṭa Jayanta who flourished late in the ninth century of the common era. In its first part, the book presents a careful edition of the original Sanskrit text of this section of the Nyāyamañjarī, along with a clear and annotated English translation of this text, and thus enables the reader to gain a first-hand experience of the topic in a concrete historical form. The second part of this book contains seven articles that discuss important issues that the Buddhist theory of universals had to deal with, including ontological, epistemological and linguistic conundrums, all of which are discussed in Jayanta’s text. These contributions try to answer these questions with different methods, ranging from a critical-historical analysis to the speculative philosophical approach, and often combining them for best results. These articles are arranged according to the date of their main subject matter, structurally following the presentation which Jayanta himself chose, and shine spotlights on stages of the apoha theory’s development from the fifth to eleventh century of the common era. This combination of a complete primary text with scholarly articles exploring several of its topics in more depth is intended to allow the informed reader to approach this important episode in the history of philosophy in an engaging and methodically sound manner, and to present new insights into the history of the apoha theory to the scholarly community.
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Buddhist antiquities --- Nomads --- Himalaya Mountains Region --- India --- India
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