Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought

Cosmopolitan Interventions

Benedikt Paul Göcke, Swami Medhananda, Benedikt Paul Göcke, Swami Medhananda

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000932133
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy of Religion

For too long, scholars interested in panentheism have focused almost exclusively on Western approaches to the issue. This book offers the first in-depth study of a wide range of Indian paradigms of panentheism, both ancient and modern, and brings these paradigms into creative and constructive dialogue with Western traditions.

This volume features original essays written by leading international scholars. The volume discusses a broad range of Indian panentheistic traditions, including the Upani?ads, Bhed?bheda Ved?nta, R?m?nuja's Vi?i???dvaita Ved?nta, Yog?c?ra Buddhism, and the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda tradition. The chapters connect these traditions with Western panentheistic conceptions developed by thinkers such as Spinoza, Berkeley, Schopenhauer, Krause, Royce, Tononi and Koch, and Western process philosophers.

Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of religion, Indian philosophy, comparative philosophy, and comparative religion.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Abhinavagupta’s Panentheism in Dialogue with Contemporary Neuroscience: Vimarśa and Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
• 3 Embodying the Boundless: The Logic of the Infinite in the Cosmologies of Ibn ‘Arabī and Rāmānuja
• 4 Viśis .t.ādvaitic Panentheism and the Liberating Function of Love in Weil, Murdoch, and Rāmānuja
• 5 Roots of Reality: The Philosophy of Foundation in Spinoza’s and Śrīnivāsa’s Monisms
• 6 Divine Minds: Idealism as Panentheism in Berkeley and Vasubandhu
• 7 Replacing Pantheism: The Principles behind the Principium Individuationis, the Pañcaupādānakkhandha, and the Paṭicca Samuppāda, with Reference to Arthur Schopenhauer and K.E. Neumann
• 8 Indian in Spirit? Karl Christian Friedrich Krause’s Panentheism and the Vedic Traditions
• 9 How to Do Things with Vedānta: Josiah Royce’s Absolute Idealism and His Misinterpretation of Upaniṣadic Panentheism
• 10 Process and Vedāntic Panentheism: The Panentheistic Models of Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin, Sri Ramakrishna, and Swami Vivekananda
• 11 Panentheism, the Necessity of the Cosmos, and Divine Time
• 12 Beyond Panentheism: An Advaita Conversation with Christian Panentheism
• Notes on Contributors
• Index