The philosophy of the Upanishads and ancient Indian metaphysics / [by] Archibald Edward Gough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gough, Archibald Edward, 1845, author.

Series:

Trubner's oriental series. India: religion and philosophy ; 9.

Trübner's oriental series

Trübner's oriental series. India: religion and philosophy ; IX

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Upanishads--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Upanishads.

Hindu philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright page; Title page; Preface; Contents; Chapter I.; The Antecedents of Indian Metaphysics-Metempsychosis.; The scope of the work; Indian philosophy the work of a lower race, of mixed Negrito, Tatar, and Aryan blood; The Aryan infusion scanty; Low thoughts in high words the difficulty of the Orientalist; Stationary and progressive order contrasted; Indian philosophy an Oriental philosophy of inertion; The social antecedents of Brahmanism and Buddhism; Personification of elemental forces; The spiritual instinct languid. Absence of moral aspiration

Current in Egypt. Adopted by Empedocles, the Pythago reans, and PlatoPhilosophy the release from metempsychosis in the Phædon; Asiatic and European pessimism; Hume's picture of the miseries of life; The similar picture of the Indian schoolmen; Chapter II.; The Quest of the Real-Brahman and Maya, the Self and the World-Fiction.; Fixity amidst the flux of things; Repose and peace amidst the miseries of life; Unity amidst the plurality of experience; These found at intervals in sleep without a dream; Permanently in union with the characterless Self, which is the object of the name and notion I

Six things without beginning

Notes:

As exhibited in a series of articles contributed to the Calcutta Review--1891 T.p.

First published in 1891 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-39057-X

1-136-39064-2

1-315-01228-6

9781315012285

OCLC:

863823567