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Knowing beyond knowledge: epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modern Advaita/ Thomas A. Forsthoefel

By: Forsthoefel, Thomas AMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi : MBP, 2007Description: 199p. ; 23cmISBN: 9781138721494Subject(s): Advaita | Experience (Religion) | Knowledge, Theory of (Hinduism)DDC classification: 294.542

Contents:

1 A brief history of experience Prolegomena Religious experience: historical context Religious experience: contemporary philosophical context Epistemology of religious experience Epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modem Vedanta 2 The epistemology of religious experience in ^ahkara Introduction Internalism and externalism in Sahkara Knowledge and the means of knowledge in Advaita The culture of liberation in Sankara 3 Later Advaita on religious experience Surdsvara, Fadmapada, the Vivekacudamani Suresvara Fadmapada The Vivekacudamani 4 The sage of pure experience: the Advaita of Ramana Maharsi Introduction Ramana Maharei: life and works Ramana's philosophy Revalorizing the culture of liberation 5 The cognitive and social implications of the epistemology of religious experience Cognitive implications Social implications How and what we know in Ramanuja's soteriology Conclusions

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1 A brief history of experience
Prolegomena
Religious experience: historical context
Religious experience: contemporary philosophical context
Epistemology of religious experience
Epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modem Vedanta
2 The epistemology of religious experience in ^ahkara
Introduction
Internalism and externalism in Sahkara
Knowledge and the means of knowledge in Advaita
The culture of liberation in Sankara
3 Later Advaita on religious experience
Surdsvara, Fadmapada, the Vivekacudamani
Suresvara
Fadmapada
The Vivekacudamani
4 The sage of pure experience: the Advaita of Ramana Maharsi
Introduction
Ramana Maharei: life and works
Ramana's philosophy
Revalorizing the culture of liberation
5 The cognitive and social implications of the epistemology of religious
experience
Cognitive implications
Social implications
How and what we know in Ramanuja's soteriology
Conclusions

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