The Structure of the World in Udayana’s Realism: A Study of the Lakṣaṇāvalī and theKiraṇāvalī: 4 (Studies of Classical India, 4) - Softcover

Tachikawa, M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9400977115 ISBN 13: 9789400977112

Publisher: Springer, 2011

Synopsis

Books dealing with individual philosophers as well as annotated translations of their works are very much in need in the field of classical Indian philos­ ophy. Hence the research efforts of modern scholars should increasingly be devoted to this objective. Professor M. Tachikawa has selected a very short elementary treatise of Udayana as well as some portions of a larger work of the same author to supplement the first. His aim is to present to us, in Udayana's own term, how he (Udayana) sees the Nyaya-VaiSe~ika system in a synoptic fashion. I wish to take this opportunity to say a few things about Udayana and the Nyaya-Vaise~ika system. UDAYANA Udayana was a pre-eminent philosopher and an astute logician of the eleventh­ twelfth century India. He belonged to the Mithila region of the present Bihar 1 state. In the history of the Nyaya-V aise~a, he holds a very crucial position. In fact, two different schools of philosophy, Nyaya and Vaise~a, belonging to ancient India, merged into one in the writings of Udayana. As it has been said, in Udayana, the happy marriage between Nyaya and Vaise~ika was com­ plete - the Vai§e~ika ontological scheme (padiirthas or system of categories) was in this way combined with the pramiir:za doctrine (logic and a theory of knowledge) of Nyaya to produce what later came to be designated as Navya­ nyaya.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9400977115
• ISBN 13: 9789400977112
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194