This book presents a unique collection of papers on various philosophical aspects of the unknown and unvoiced truth and reality of the cosmic world. It offers a systematic analysis of the three philosophical theories of Quietism, Agnosticism and Mysticism and introduces readers to the fundamentals of mystical knowledge claimed by philosophical schools of the east and the west. It discusses, debates and deliberates on philosophical issues concerning the acquisition of truth, its objectivity and its various dimensions along with the application of thoughts pertaining to Quietism, Agnosticism, and metaphysical-mystic traditions in philosophy. It examines and precisely defines the scope and limits of knowledge, the respective way of life, its expressions and morality, mystical revelation, ineffability of the ultimate, value realism, and faith and reason - with a primary focus on the classical Indian schools of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Agnosticism, the Bauls, Greek traditions, modern western meta-philosophy, and contemporary quietist debate in religion and theology. This insightful collection should be of great interest to independent researchers, students and teachers of philosophy, theology, Mysticism and Agnosticism, cultural studies and religious studies.

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Krishna Mani Pathak (PhD, Heidelberg) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hindu College, University of Delhi, India. He has worked as lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany and as Visiting Professor at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius. He is an active member of the American Philosophical Association and is currently serving as member of its Committee for International Cooperation for a three years term. He is also on the editorial board of the Acorn Journal, USA. He is a founding life member of the Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Society (LWPS) of India. His publications cover a range of topics from theoretical to comparative philosophy to applied philosophy. His recent publications have appeared in the series of Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Springer's Schopenhauer on Self, World and Morality, Sage Open, Journal of Human Values, Tulsi Prajña, Asia Journal of Global Studies, International Journal of Applied Ethics and WCP proceedings. He has also been external assessor for grant applications of SSHRC, Canada and article editor for Sage Publications

Inhalt

PART I: The Quietist Thinking1. What is Philosophical Quietism (Wittgensteinian and otherwise)?Thomas J. Spiegel2. Silence as a Therapeutic Device: A Case for Sunyavada as Philosophical QuietismAjay Verma3. Rationalistic Value Realism as a Religion without God: An Option for Metaethical QuietismStelios Virvidakis4. Does the Ineffability of Brahman lead to Quietism? Säkara on the Indispensability ofLanguageVedika Mati Hurdoyal-Chekhori PART II: The Agnostic Mind5. Sañjaya's ajñanavada and Mahavira's anekantavada: From Agnosticism to PluralismAnish Chakravarty6. Agnosticism, Atheism and Naturalism's Imaginaire: A Defense of God and ReligionPeter Feldmeier7. Mystical Theistic Ineffability and AgnosticismJerome Gellman8. An Agnostic Deconstruction of Mysticism and the Philosophical Value of its Truth ClaimsChristine M. Ratzlaff PART III: The Mystic's World9. Plotinus and Godlike VirtuesStephen R. L. Clark10. Connection between Faith and Reason in Religious MysticismMansi Handa11. Mysticism of Experience, Faith in Communication: Nietzsche and KierkegaardOle Höffken12. Encoded Language as Mystical Revelation Among the Bauls of West BengalJarrod Hyam13. The Cosmic World, the Mystical Mind and the Vedic Concept of OriginationKrishna Mani Pathak