Autorentext

Elisa Freschi is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. She works on philosophy in the Sanskrit cosmopolis. Her interests include epistemology of testimony, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, deontic logic, and the re-use of texts in South Asian intellectual traditions. Freschi is a convinced upholder of reading Sanskrit philosophical texts within their history and understanding them through a philosophical approach.

Klappentext

One God, One System charts a history of Sanskrit philosophy in the absence of an agreed-upon canon, timeline, principal thinkers, or core philosophical questions. Contrary to previous ahistorical approaches centered on unchanging 'schools', Elisa Freschi focuses on andreconstructs the intellectual figure of Ve käan tha and his philosophical and theological contribution to what we now call 'Vi i dvaita Ved nta'.

This volume explores how Vi i dvaita Ved nta as we know it now is largely a product of Ve käan tha's unique philosophical and theological contributions. He connected various texts and theories so that readers and practitioners looking at the time before Ve käan tha now recognize them as parts of a unitary whole. Once Ve käan tha's contribution is in place it is in fact easy to look back at authors before him and recognize them as pieces of the same jigsaw puzzle. Freschi presents a novel reading of Ve käan tha through focused chapters on his epistemology, ontology, soteriology, and theology, examining both the range and theoretical basis of his synthesis and methodology.

Inhalt

• 1: Why this book

• 2: S andri¯andvais.andn.andavism

• 3: The Role of Pu¯andrva Mi¯andma¯andm.andsa¯and in early Vis andis.andt.anda¯anddvaita Veda¯andnta

• 4: Ven:andkat.andana¯andtha's life and philosophy

• 5: Ven:andkat.andana¯andtha's theology

• 6: Mi¯andma¯andm.andsa¯andand Veda¯andnta clashing

• 7: Building a Single System

• 8: Conclusions