Preface 1. The Idea of the Veda and the Identity of Hinduism 2. The Presence of the Veda in Indian Philosophical Reflection 3. Vedic Orthodoxy and the Plurality of Religious Traditions 4. Vedic Apologetics, Ritual Killing, and the Foundations of Ethics 5. Human Reason and Vedic Revelation in Advaita Vedanta 6. Sankara, the Yoga of Patanjali, and the So-Called Yogasutrabhasyavivarana 7. The Therapeutic Paradigm and the Search for Identity in Indian Philosophy 8. Man and Self in Traditional Indian Thought 9. Competing Causalities: Karma, Vedic Rituals, and the Natural World 10. Home Hierarchicus: The Conceptualization of the Varna System in Indian Thought Abbreviations Index
Wilhelm Halbfass (1940-2000) was Professor of Indian Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding; On Being and What There Is: Classical Vaisxes|ika and the History of Indian Ontology; and the editor of Philology and Confrontation: Paul Hacker on Traditional and Modern Vedanta; all published by SUNY Press.
"Halbfass treats areas of Indian philosophy which have not been treated systematically until now, the understanding of which is nonetheless very important for our understanding of India philosophy as a whole. His work marks an important shift in our awareness away from theories of reality and knowledge per se, toward the larger framework of hermeneutical reflection and human motivation within which those theories were devised. This is a work of exceptional quality and importance; a significant, new picture of Hindu philosophical thought emerges." - John Taber
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