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The Lost Age of Reason Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700

9780199218745

The Lost Age of Reason Philosophy in Early Modern India 1450-1700

  • ISBN 13:

    9780199218745

  • ISBN 10:

    0199218749

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 04/08/2011
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The Lost Age of Reasondeals with a fascinating and rich episode in the history of philosophy, one from which those who are interested in the nature of modernity and its global origins have a great deal to learn. Early modernity in India consists in the formation of a new philosophical self, one which makes it possible meaningfully to conceive of oneself as engaging the ancient and the alien in conversation. The ancient texts are now not thought of as authorities to which one must defer, but regarded as the source of insight in the company of which one pursues the quest for truth. This new attitude implies a change in the conception of one's duties towards the past. After reconstructing the historical intellectual context in detail, and developing a suitable methodological framework, Ganeri reviews work on the concept of knowledge, the nature of evidence, the self, the nature of the categories, mathematics, realism, and a new language for philosophy. A study of early modern philosophy in India has much to teach us today - about the nature of modernity as such, about the reform of educational institutions and its relationship to creative research, and about cosmopolitan identities in circumstances of globalisation.

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