| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Agency in Samkhya and Yoga / Edwin F. Bryant -- Free Persons, Empty Selves / Karin Meyers -- Free Will and Volunteerism in Jainism / Christopher Key Chapple -- Paninian Grammarians on Agency and Independence / George Cardona -- Nyaya's Self as Agent and Knower / Matthew R. Dasti -- Freedom Because of Duty / Elisa Freschi -- Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose / Jay L. Garfield -- Self, Causation, and Agency in the Advaita of Sankara / Sthaneshwar Timalsina -- The Linguistics and Cosmology of Agency in Nondual Kashmiri Saiva Thought -- Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Ramanuja / Martin Ganeri -- Dependent Agency and Hierarchical Determinism in the Theology of Madhva / David Buchta -- Agency in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Tradition / Satyanarayana Dasa and Jonathan B. Edelmann. |
| Summary |
Focusing on the rich and variegated cluster of Indic philosophical traditions as they developed from the late Vedic period up to the pre-modern period, this book offers an understanding, according to each school, of the nature of free will and agency. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Indic.
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Philosophy, Indic. |
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Self (Philosophy) -- India.
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Self (Philosophy) |
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India. |
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Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects.
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Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dasti, Matthew R., editor.
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Bryant, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis), 1957- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Free will, agency, and selfhood in Indian philosophy 9780199922758 (DLC) 2013017925 (OCoLC)852227561 |
| ISBN |
9780199922741 (electronic book) |
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0199922748 (electronic book) |
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9780199922758 |
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0199922756 |
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9780199922734 |
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019992273X |
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