Knowing beyond knowledge : epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modern Advaita / Thomas A. Forsthoefel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forsthoefel, Thomas A.

Series:

Ashgate world philosophies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Advaita.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Experience (Religion).

Physical Description:

xi, 199 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Alderhot, England ; Burlington, VT. : Ashgate, 2002.

Contents:

1 A brief history of experience 1

Prolegomena 1

Religious experience: historical context 10

Religious experience: contemporary philosophical context 15

Epistemology of religious experience 23

Epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modern Vedanta 32

2 The epistemology of religious experience in Sankara 35

Internalism and externalism in Sankara 39

Knowledge and the means of knowledge in Advaita 42

The culture of liberation in Sankara 56

3 Later Advaita on religious experience 73

Suresvara, Padmapada, the Vivekacudamani 73

Suresvara 76

Padmapada 98

The Vivekacudamani 108

4 The sage of pure experience: the Advaita of Ramana Maharsi 123

Ramana Maharsi: life and works 129

Ramana's philosophy 133

Revalorizing the culture of liberation 138

5 The cognitive and social implications of the epistemology of religious experience 156

Cognitive implications 156

Social implications 161

How and what we know in Ramanuja's soteriology 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (183-195) and index.

ISBN:

0754606252

OCLC:

49495147