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ISBN: | 0754686760 9780754686767 0754654567 9780754654568 1317117433 9781317117438 1317117425 9781317117421 1281099236 9781281099235 9786611099237 6611099239
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | This book presents a collection of essays, setting out both the special concern of classical Indian thought and some of its potential contributions to global philosophy. It presents some key arguments made by different schools about this special concern: the way in which attainment of knowledge of reality transforms human nature in a fundamentally liberating way. It then goes on to look in detail at two areas in contemporary global philosophy - the ethics of difference, and the metaphysics of consciousness - where this classical Indian commitment to the spiritually transformative power of know.
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Other form: | Print version: Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi. Indian philosophy and the consequences of knowledge. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2007 0754654567 9780754654568
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