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The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. David B. Zilberman
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Editors:
  1. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Center for Philosophy of Science, Boston University, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 102)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Hindu Systems of Thought as Epistemic Disciplines

    • David B. Zilberman, Robert S. Cohen
    Pages 1-70

  3. The Birth of ‘Meaning’

    • David B. Zilberman, Robert S. Cohen
    Pages 71-140

  4. Dialectics in Kant and in the Nyāya-Sūtra

    • David B. Zilberman, Robert S. Cohen
    Pages 141-179

  5. The Canonical Self in the World of Knowledge

    • David B. Zilberman, Robert S. Cohen
    Pages 180-217

  6. Revelation in Advaita Vedānta as an Experiment in the Semantic Destruction of Language

    • David B. Zilberman, Robert S. Cohen
    Pages 218-246

  7. Is the Bodhisattva a Skeptic?

    • David B. Zilberman, Robert S. Cohen
    Pages 247-262

  8. Hindu Values and Buddhism

    • David B. Zilberman, Robert S. Cohen
    Pages 263-298

  9. Understanding Cultural Traditions Through Types of Thinking

    • David B. Zilberman, Robert S. Cohen
    Pages 299-329

  10. The Family of Hindu ‘Visions’ as Cultural Entities

    • David B. Zilberman, Robert S. Cohen
    Pages 330-349

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 350-368
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In his letter to B. K. Matilal, dated February 20, 1977, the author of this book wrote about his work on Advaita-Vedanta: " ... It was not to present Advaita in the light of current problems of the logic of scientific discovery and modern philosophy of language ... but just the contrary. I do not believe that any 'logic without metaphysics' or 'philosophy of language without thinking' is possible." This passage alone may serve as the clue to Zilberman's understanding and mode of explaining that specific and highly original approach to (not 'of'!) philosophy that he himself nicknamed modal. Four points would seem to me to be most essential here. First, a philosophy cannot have 'anything un-thinking' as its object of investigation. Language, to Zilberman, is not a phenomenon of con­ sciousness but a spontaneously working natural mechanism (like, for instance, 'mind' to some Buddhist philosophers). It may, of course, be­ come used for and by consciousness; consciousness may see itself, so to speak, in language, but only secondarily, only as in one of its modifica­ tions, derivations or modalities. That is why to Zilberman linguistic- as to Kant psychology - cannot and must not figure as the primary ground for any philosophical investigation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Philosophy of Science, Boston University, USA

    Robert S. Cohen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought

  • Authors: David B. Zilberman

  • Editors: Robert S. Cohen

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1431-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7141-3Published: 08 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1431-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 410

  • Topics: Philosophy, general

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