Indian Philosophy : A Counter Perspective

Contents: Preface. 1. Is Indian philosophy 'theological' in character? 2. Three myths about Indian philosophy. 3. Three conceptions of Indian philosophy. 4. Indian philosophy and moksa: revisiting an old controversy. 5. The Vedic corpus: some questions. 6. The Vedic corpus and the two sutra-text, concerned with it; the Mimamsa Sutra and the Brahma Sutra. 7. The Upanisads-what are they? 8. The Yoga-Sutras: the undeciphered text anomalies, problems and paradoxes. 9. Yajna and the doctrine of karma-a contradiction in Indian thought about action. 10. Apoha and Samavaya in Kantian perspective. 11. The text of the Nyaya-Sutras: some problems. 12. Prasastapada's mapping of the realm of qualities: a neglected chapter in Indian philosophy. 13. Is Isvarakrsna's Samkhya-Karika really Samkhyan? 14. Vedanta-does it really mean anything? 15. Adhyasa-a non-Advaitic beginning in Samkara Vedanta. 16. The myth of the Purusarthas. 17. Rasa-the bane of Indian aesthetics. 18. Consciousness, materiality and spirituality: issues, dilemmas and the future of mankind. 19. Bondage of birth and death: emerging technologies of freedom on the horizon and the hope of final release from the foundational bondage of mankind. Annexures. Index.