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Otherness in the Pratyabhijna philosophy |
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Ratié, Isabelle
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Journal of Indian Philosophy
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| Volume | v.35 n.4 |
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| Date | 2007.08 |
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| Pages | 313 - 370 |
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| Publisher | Springer |
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http://www.springer.com/gp/
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| Location | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | Idealism is the core of the Pratyabhijñã philosophy: the main goal of Utpaladeva (fl. c. 925–950 AD) and of his commentator Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975–1025 AD) is to establish that nothing exists outside of consciousness. In the course of their demonstration, these Śaiva philosophers endeavour to distinguish their idealism from that of a rival system, the Buddhist Vijñānavāda. This article aims at examining the concept of otherness (paratva) as it is presented in the Pratyabhijñā philosophy in contrast with that of the Vijñānavādins’. Although, according to the Pratyabhijñā, the other subjects are not ultimately real since all subjects are nothing but limited manifestations of a single absolute subject, the fact that we are aware of their existence in the practical world has to be accounted for. The Vijñānavādins explain it by arguing the we infer the others’ existence. The Pratyabhijñā philosophers, while refuting their opponents’ reasoning as it is expounded in Dharmakīrti’s Santānāntarasiddhi, develop a particulary original analysis of our awareness of the others, stating that this awareness is neither a perception (pratyakṣa) nor an inference (anumāna), but rather a guess (ūha) in which we sense the others’ freedom (svātantrya). |
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| Table of contents | Introduction Otherness—a philosophical problem? 314
I. The Buddhist controversy over otherness as presented by Abhinavagupta(I¯PV I, 5, 5) 317
I. 1. The context: a discussion on idealism 317
I.2. The externalist’s criticism: the Vijn˜ a¯nava¯da reifies the other subjects 319
I.3. The Vijn˜ a¯nava¯din’s answer: alterity is known through inference 322
I.4. The externalist’s criticism 326
II. Otherness according to the Pratyabhijn˜ a¯ philosophy (I¯PV I, 1, 5) 336
II. 1. The self-luminosity of knowledge: a subject’s consciousness is self-established for that subject 336
II. 2. Praka¯s´a and vimars´a: action as the essence of knowledge 338
II. 3. Incarnated action as the final stage of knowledge 345
II. 4. The nature of the awareness of others: perception, inference, guess, recognition 354
II. 5. The intersubjective world: an expression of the universal subject’s freedom 364
Conclusion. Of distraction and recognition 367
References 369
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| ISSN | 00221791 (P); 15730395 (E) |
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| Created date | 2007.11.26 |
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| Modified date | 2019.07.31 |
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