دانلود کتاب Quietism, Agnosticism and Mysticism: Mapping the Philosophical Discourse of the East and the West

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Editor and Contributors
Part I The Quietist Thinking
1 Philosophical Thinking: An Introduction
1 Part I. The Quietist Thinking
2 Part II. The Agnostic Mind
3 Part III. The Mystic’s World
References
2 What is Philosophical Quietism (Wittgensteinian and Otherwise)?
1 Introduction
2 The Wittgensteinian Roots of Quietism
3 Four Candidates for Quietism
4 Quietism and Scientific Theories in Philosophy
5 Philosophical Methodology with a Quietist Constraint
6 Conclusion
References
3 Silence as a Therapeutic Device: A Case for Śūnyavāda as Philosophical Quietism
1 Introduction
2 Śūnyavāda and the Question of Language
3 Śūnyavādin’s Critique of Pramāṇa System
4 Śūnyavādin’s Non-essentialism (Nisvabhāvatā) and Its Relation to Their Soteriology
5 Śūnyavādin’s No-Thesis Stance as Philosophical Quietism
References
4 Rationalistic Value Realism as a Religion Without God: An Option for Metaethical Quietism
1 Quietist Aspects of Contemporary Rationalistic Moral Realism
2 Dworkin’s Comprehensive Value Realism
3 Metaethical Cognitivism Without Metaphysics
4 Groundless Value Realism as a Religion Without God
5 Concluding Queries
References
5 Does the Ineffability of Brahman Lead to Quietism? Śaṅkara on the Indispensability of Language
1 Introduction
2 The Role of Scriptural Testimony
3 Four Mahāvākyas and Brahman
4 Advaitic Theory of Verbal Cognition and Knowledge
5 Brahman’s Ineffability and the Limitation of Language
6 Conclusion
References
Part II The Agnostic Mind
6 Sañjaya’s Ajñānavāda and Mahāvīra’s Anekāntavāda: From Agnosticism to Pluralism
1 Ancient Jaina Texts and the School of Ajñāna
2 Ancient Buddhist Texts and Sañjaya
3 Ajñānavāda and Syādavāda: Influence of the One Over the Other
4 Śaṅkara Critiques Anekāntavāda or Ajñānavāda?
5 Conclusion
References
7 Agnosticism, Atheism, and Naturalism’s Imaginaire: A Defense of God and Religion
1 Secularism and the West
2 Clifford and James
3 Science, Religion, and Secularism
4 Is Religion Socially Pernicious?
5 Pascal’s Real Challenge
6 Revisiting Aquinas
7 Conclusions
References
8 Mystical Theistic Ineffability and Agnosticism
1 Ineffability and Agnosticism
2 The Principle of Charity
3 The Internal Objection and the External Objection
4 Ineffability Defended
5 Functionalist Ascriptions
References
9 An Agnostic Deconstruction of Mysticism and the Philosophical Value of Its Truth Claims
1 Introduction
2 The Method of Deconstructionism
3 Zen Buddhism and Absolute Nothingness
4 Biosophy and Emotion
5 Kabbalah and Ein-Sof
6 The Final Analysis
7 Conclusion
References
Part III The Mystic’s World
10 Plotinus and Godlike Virtues
1 An Inconsistent Triad?
2 Aristotle on Mortal and Immortal Thinking
3 Which Gods? Which Virtues?
4 The God at the Center
5 A Concluding Remark
References
11 Connection Between Faith and Reason in Religious Mysticism
1 Introduction
2 Defining Faith
3 Relation Between Faith and Reason
4 Inclusivism, Exclusivism and Pluralism
5 Conclusion
References
12 Mysticism of Experience, Faith in Communication: Nietzsche and Kierkegaard
1 Introduction
2 Nietzsche: General Thought and Individual Experience
3 Kierkegaard: Objective Reason and Subjective Existence
4 Conclusion
References
13 Encoded Language as Mystical Revelation Among the Bāuls of West Bengal
1 Medieval Folk-Poets and Modern Bengali Bāul Minstrels
2 Buddhist Syncretic Heterodoxy
3 Coded Language
4 Ethnographic Exegesis
5 Concluding Reflections
References
14 The Cosmic World, the Mystical Mind and the Vedic Concept of Origination
1 Introduction
2 What is It to Be a Mystery?
3 Origination Versus Creation: Parallels Between Hindu Mysticism and Christian Mysticism
4 The Mystical Mind
5 A Concluding Remark
References
15 Concluding Questions
1 Quietism and the Limits of Language
2 Agnosticism and the Limits of Human Reason
3 Mysticism and the Known-Unknown Puzzle
Index