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Against a Hindu god :

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0231142226 (cloth : alk. paper)

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0231513070 (ebook)

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9780231142229 (cloth : alk. paper)

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9780231513074 (ebook)

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Against a Hindu god :

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[Book]

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Buddhist philosophy of religion in India /

First Statement of Responsibility

Parimal G. Patil

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New York :

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Columbia University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2009

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xi, 406 p. ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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

God (Hinduism)

Knowledge, Theory of (Buddhism)

Nyaya

Religion-- Philosophy

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Patil, Parimal G

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20090709000000.0

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