DISCUSSION AND DEBATE IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY : ISSUES IN VEDANTA, MIMAMSA AND NYAYA BY DAYA KRISHNA [HARDCOVER] OLD BOOK

The work documents the discussions and debate around some of the most vital issues relating to Mimamsa, Vedanta and Nyaya in Indian Philosophy. Does Mimamsa really believe in the Doctrine of Karma as understood in the Indian tradition, or consider it as a purvapaksa which has to be refuted in order to understand the nature of the Vedic Yajna? Did Vedanta really exist as an important School of Indian Philosophy before Sankara appeared on the scene, or is it a Post Sankara phenomenon which has been retrospectively superimposed on the history of Indian Philosophy by those who have written on the subject? Is Nyaya 'Realist' as everyone seems to term is understood in the Western Philosophical tradition? What is Aharya Jnana, and if it is really a jnana what happens to jnana or 'knowledge' as understood in the Indian Philosophical traditions?

These and many other issues are debated and discussed by outstanding traditional Pandits and modern scholars such as Pattabhirama Sastri, Ramanuja Tattacarya, Romella Suryaprakasa Sastri, D. Prahalada Char, V. Venkatachalam, Fritz Staal, R. Balasubramanian, J. N. Mohanty, Sibajiban Bhattacharyya, and others whose names are well-known to the English-knowing 'world' of Indian Philosophy.

Indian Philosophy can never remain the same after one has read these discussions and debate on issues so central to Indian Philosophy.