Studies on the Cārvāka/Lokāyata
Author: Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9788860321138
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Lokāyata/Cārvāka
Author: Pradīpa Gokhale
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199460632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophy in Indian tradition as a purely secular and rational exercise can be located in the Lokāyata/Cārvāka school of Indian philosophy. Due to the lack of substantial literary sources, scholars did not try to explore Lokāyata philosophically. The present work is the first attempt to explore the philosophical energies inherent in the scattered Cārvāka literature through critical and analytical discussions firmly grounded in textual evidences.
Lōkayata
Author: Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
Publisher:
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 734
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spirit of Charvaka Lokayata
Author: Ancient Scripture Studies
Publisher:
Published: 2017-02-24
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781544103808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix centuries before Christ, ancient Hindu philosophers had already embraced Charvaka. Their philosophy was simple: that which is real is what is real. That is, their epistemology was based on perception. Speculative inference is simply not reliable. We may be right or wrong when we begin to infer. Seeing is believing. And any other direct means of perception. So supernaturalism is not real. It is a theory without merit. Thus, no anthropomorphic gods or God. No reincarnation or afterlife of any kind. Charvaka (based on the earlier Lokayata) means that we honestly embrace reality. That is true religion: living joyfully in this world as it actually is. Living free is a wonderful ritual. Accepting the need to become mature, grownup, in our outlook on life: that is the crying need today as it was two and a half millennia ago. As we all become Charvakas, at least in part, we will begin to respect ourselves; embrace the real God: the connecting bond of life; and celebrate the gift of this place and time.As you read these nine chapters that summarize the essence of Chavarka Philosophy, ask yourself how your perspective on life compares to this one. This book is offered in the spirit of a challenge to rethink your life in the light of this ancient way. Even if you eventually conclude that it is a mistaken path, may your own journey be enriched by reading this Lokayata philosophy.
Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata
Author: Rāmakr̥shṇa Bhaṭṭācārya
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0857284339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata' is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and twelfth centuries CE, and which has since disappeared. Despite the paucity of material relating to the Carvaka, a reconstruction of its basic tenets reveals it to be the lone contender standing against the perceived binary of pro-Vedic Brahminical schools on the one hand, and the non-Vedic Buddhist and Jain schools on the other. This study seeks to disprove certain notions about the Carvaka/Lokayata, particularly that the Carvaka-s did not approve of any instrument of cognition other than perception, and that they advocated unalloyed sensualism and hedonism. In contrast, this volume offers evidence to show that the Carvaka-s, despite their difference of opinion in other areas, did admit inference in so far as it was grounded on perception. Furthermore, the author argues that the common belief that 'all materialists are nothing but sensualists' is a misconception, as no authentic Carvaka aphorisms have been cited by the movement's opponents to support this view. This study also seeks to establish the fact that a pre-Carvaka school of materialism existed in India, although there is no way to prove that the Carvaka system grew out of it. Yet if the evidence provided by the 'Manimekalai' - and indirectly supported by the 'Mahabharata' - is admitted, it could be suggested that the two schools existed simultaneously.
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Author: Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-02-11
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1527546861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a sequel to the author’s Studies on the Cārvāka/Lokāyata. Materialism appeared with different names at least from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, the time of the Buddha. Some evidence of materialist thought is also found in the Upaniṣads. The epic, Rāmāyaṇa, features Jābāli, a proto-materialist character who denies the existence of the Other World, heaven and hell. Full-fledged materialist doctrines are also available in the works of the various opponents of materialism. The book deals with both the Pre-Cārvākas and the Cārvākas. For some unknown reason, all texts, including commentaries, of the Cārvāka/Lokāyata were lost after the twelfth century CE. However, on the basis of available fragments, the fundamental tenets of this system can still be reconstructed. This text contains the results of the most recent research in materialism in India.
Uniqueness of Cārvāka philosophy in traditional Indian thought
Author: Bhupender Heera
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788186921555
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Author: Bijayananda Kar
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788120836921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Anatomy of the Financial Crisis
Author: Nashwa Saleh
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0857289616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did the US financial crisis snowball into USD 15 trillion global losses? This book offers a clear synthesis and original analysis of the various factors that led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010, and is intended as a supplementary course text for undergraduate and postgraduate students in finance or finance-related courses.
Dalit Theology after Continental Philosophy
Author: Y.T. Vinayaraj
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 3319312685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, steeped in the traditions of both postcolonial theory and Continental philosophy, addresses fundamental questions about God and theology in the postcolonial world. Namely, Y.T. Vinayaraj asks whether Continental philosophies of God and the ‘other’ can attend to the struggles that entail human pain and suffering in the postcolonial context. The volume offers a constructive proposal for a Dalit theology of immanent God or de-othering God as it emerges out of the Lokayata, the Indian materialist epistemology. Engaging with the post-Continental philosophers of immanence such as Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Catherine Malabou, and Jean-Luc Nancy, Vinayaraj explores the idea of a Dalit theology of God and body in the post-Continental context. The book investigates how there can be a Dalit theology of God without any Christian philosophical baggage of transcendentalism. The study ends with a clarion call for Indian Christian Theology to take a turn toward an immanence that is political and polydoxical in content.
