Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge

K N Jayatilleke

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781134542949
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Theologie & Religion
• Sous-sujet: Religion

The author of this volume, an accomplished philologist, historian and philosopher, analyzes the relevant earlier and later texts and traces the epistemological foundations of Pali canonical thought from the Vedic period onwards. Originally published in 1963, it sheds new light on later developments and elucidates from the Indian point of view some of the basic problems of the conflict between metaphysics and logical and linguistic analysis.

INDEX

• abhāva, negation, 84
• ABHAYADEVA, a Jain commentator, 142, 154, 155, 164
• ABHAYARĀJAKUMĀRA, 226
• Ābhidharmika, 283, 285, 287, 288
• abhijāti species, 101
• abhinibodha (mati), perceptual and discursive cognition, 165
• abhiññā, paranormal cognition, 99, 180, 188, 192, 417, 423, 437–9, 466
• abhrānta, non-erroneous, incorrigible (of perception), 85
• Absolute, discourse, 363; sense, 262, 266; speech, 363, 365; statement, 364; teaching, 363–6
• Abstraction, faculty of, 415
• Acceptance, out of faith, 396; of a proposition, 393; provisional, 391, 392; of a statement, 390, 391
• Activity theory of causation, 443, 452
• ādesanā pāṭihāriya, miracle of instruction, 324n, 440
• adhiccasamuppanna, indeterministic, 252, 261, 262, 270, 271, 445, 446
• adhiccasamuppannavāda, indeterminism, 262
• adhiccasamuppannika, indeterminist, 445
• adṛṣṭārtha, non-empirical facts, 173
• Advaita Vedānta, 23, 174
• Affirmation, four-fold principle of, 337
• āgama, scriptural tradition, 84, 198
• āgame, tradition as a means of knowledge, 167
• Agent, of an action, 292; metaphysical, 402
• Agnostic, 80, 116, 125, 134, 472; naive, 472; teachers, 132; trends, 110
• Agnosticism, 109, 132, 472, 476; Kantian, 109; naive, 471; rational, 40, 109, 471; of Sañjaya, 138; of Yājñavalkya, 40
• Agreement, the method of, 146
• ahetu, non-causal, 339; appaccayā, without cause or...