Titlebook: Categories, Creation and Cognition in Vaiśeṣika Philosophy; ShashiPrabha Kumar Book 2019 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 hermeneut

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,Atomic Theory of Vaiśeṣika,ientific thought in ancient India. The Vaiśeṣika system represents a pluralistic point of view as it believes in the diversity of the visible world containing the matter, attributes and motion and provides an original approach for explaining the physical world. According to Vaiśeṣika, the atoms of f

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, in Vaiśeṣika,n attribute (.) will also be referred to herein. In the original Vaiśeṣika of Kaṇāda, . was neither enumerated as a separate attribute nor assigned the status of an independent . Praśastapāda added it to the list of attributes, and one of his commentators, Vyomaśiva, established for the first time t

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,Hermeneutical Principles in Vaiśeṣika,g ancient texts and interpretation of their meaning. It has come to be a tool for explaining reality and language in the area of philosophy. Although the Indian philosophical tradition does not describe hermeneutics as such, yet the principles it adopts are well expressed in different systems of Ind

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, in Vyomavatī,ry on Praśastapāda’s .. Other Vaiśeṣika sources will also be referred to wherever relevant. The . presents several views of the opponents (.) regarding . and after rejecting them all one by one, posits the traditional view of Vaiśeṣika as the proponent.

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,Are the Vaiśeṣikas Pāśupatas?,upata sect of Hindu religion. The exposition will mainly be based on several references available in the internal sources of Vaiśeṣika and also gathered from other texts of Indian philosophical tradition.

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,Ethics in Vaiśeṣika,spect but at the same time presents a fairly developed description of ethical issues as will be clear from the following pages. The idea of individual, social as well as universal obligations of human beings has been discussed in Vaiśeṣika philosophy.

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,Vaiśeṣika Studies Across the World,in focus here will be on the later aspect (since the former has already been discussed in another chapter); but the same is also selective and not comprehensive. Accordingly the contribution of a few international scholars* to Vaiśeṣika school of Indian philosophy is being presented in this chapter.

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