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Schopenhauer's encounter with Indian thought : representation and will and their Indian parallels / Stephen Cross.

by Cross, Stephen, author.

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Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2013.

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.

Hindu philosophy.

Buddhist philosophy.

Representation (Philosophy)

9780824837358 (cloth : alk. paper) :

0824837355 (cloth : alk. paper)

Monograph ... of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy ; no. 24.

xiv, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Schopenhauer in context: the "oriental renaissance" -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Hinduism -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Buddhism -- "Representation": Schopenhauer and the reality-status of the world -- The reality-status of the empirical world: the Mādhyamika teaching -- Advaita Vedānta: the world as illusory appearance -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's doctrine of representation and its Indian affinities -- Schopenhauer's conception of the world as will -- Schopenhauer: the will in its general forms (ideas) -- Metaphysical factors behind the empirical world: Advaita Vedānta -- The arising of the empirical world in Buddhism: the Yogācāra teaching -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's will and comparable Indian ideas -- The ontological status of will -- Beyond the will: "better consciousness" and the "pure subject of knowing" -- The hidden compass: Schopenhauer and the limits of philosophy -- Schopenhauer and Indian thought.

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