Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad studied History, Politics and Sociology in India before taking a doctorate in Philosophy at Oxford. He taught Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, and held Research Fellowships at Trinity College, Oxford, and Clare Hall, Cambridge, before joining Lancaster University where he is now Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy. His books are Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought (2001), Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics (2002), and Eastern Philosophy (2005). He has written over forty papers in Indian and comparative philosophy, politics and religion, and classical Indian religions.

• Contents: Preface; Introduction; Multiplist metaphysics and ethics; Consciousness and luminosity: on how knowledge is possible; Knowledge and action: how to attain the highest good; Liberation without annihilation: Parthasarathi Misra on jñanasakti; Conceptuality in question: teaching and pure cognition in Yogacara-Madhyamaka; Bibliography; Index.

’Although it is not possible in a short review to do justice to the rich detail of these wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays, I hope I have said enough by now about this very interesting collection to whet the appetite of any potential reader. Certainly, I can assure every scholar of classical Indian philosophy of finding much here to be read with profit and pleasure.’ Nagoya Studies in Indian Culture and Buddhism