This pioneering study examines the philosophy of the nineteenth-century Indian mystic Sri Ramakrishna, bringing him into dialogue with Western thinkers. Sri Ramakrishna's expansive conception of God as the impersonal-personal Infinite Reality, Maharaj argues, introduces a new paradigm for addressing central issues in the philosophy of religion.
This pioneering study examines the philosophy of the nineteenth-century Indian mystic Sri Ramakrishna, bringing him into dialogue with Western thinkers. Sri Ramakrishna's expansive conception of God as the impersonal-personal Infinite Reality, Maharaj argues, introduces a new paradigm for addressing central issues in the philosophy of religion.
Ayon Maharaj is Assistant Professor and Head of Philosophy at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute in West Bengal, India. He is also an ordained Brahmacarin, with the name of Buddhacaitanya, in training to be a Sannyasin monk of the Ramakrishna Order. Holding a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, he has published over a dozen articles on Indian, German, and cross-cultural philosophy. He is the author of The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency: Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno (2013) and the editor of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * A Note on Sanskrit and Bengali Transliteration * Abbreviations of Primary Texts * Introduction * PART ONE: THE INFINITUDE OF GOD * Chapter 1 * Sri Ramakrishna's Harmonizing Philosophy of Vijñana Vedanta * Chapter 2 * A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Divine Infinitude: Sri Ramakrishna, Paraconsistency, and the Overcoming of Conceptual Idolatry * PART TWO: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM * Chapter 3 * "All Faiths Are Paths": A Reconstruction and Defense of Sri Ramakrishna's Vijñana-Based Model of Religious Pluralism * Chapter 4 * John Hick's Vedantic Road Not Taken?: Hick's Evolving Views on Religious Pluralism in the Light of Sri Ramakrishna * PART THREE: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE * Chapter 5 * Beyond Perennialism and Constructivism: Sri Ramakrishna's Manifestationist Model of Mystical Experience * Chapter 6 * A Cross-Cultural Defense of the Epistemic Value of Mystical Experience: Sri Ramakrishna, Self-Authentication, and the Argument from Experience * PART FOUR: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL * Chapter 7 * Sri Ramakrishna's Multidimensional Response to the Problem of Evil: Skeptical Theism, Saint-Making Theodicy, and the Panentheistic Standpoint of Vijñana * Chapter 8 * A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Problem of Evil: Sri Ramakrishna, the Rowe-Alston Debate, and Hick's Soul-Making Theodicy * Methodological Postlude * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * A Note on Sanskrit and Bengali Transliteration * Abbreviations of Primary Texts * Introduction * PART ONE: THE INFINITUDE OF GOD * Chapter 1 * Sri Ramakrishna's Harmonizing Philosophy of Vijñana Vedanta * Chapter 2 * A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Divine Infinitude: Sri Ramakrishna, Paraconsistency, and the Overcoming of Conceptual Idolatry * PART TWO: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM * Chapter 3 * "All Faiths Are Paths": A Reconstruction and Defense of Sri Ramakrishna's Vijñana-Based Model of Religious Pluralism * Chapter 4 * John Hick's Vedantic Road Not Taken?: Hick's Evolving Views on Religious Pluralism in the Light of Sri Ramakrishna * PART THREE: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE * Chapter 5 * Beyond Perennialism and Constructivism: Sri Ramakrishna's Manifestationist Model of Mystical Experience * Chapter 6 * A Cross-Cultural Defense of the Epistemic Value of Mystical Experience: Sri Ramakrishna, Self-Authentication, and the Argument from Experience * PART FOUR: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL * Chapter 7 * Sri Ramakrishna's Multidimensional Response to the Problem of Evil: Skeptical Theism, Saint-Making Theodicy, and the Panentheistic Standpoint of Vijñana * Chapter 8 * A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Problem of Evil: Sri Ramakrishna, the Rowe-Alston Debate, and Hick's Soul-Making Theodicy * Methodological Postlude * Bibliography * Index
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