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Douglas Berger's timely study, "The Veil of Maya": Schopenhauer's System and Early Indian Thought, shows that this case can be made by way of a careful analysis of the development of Schopenhauer's philosophy without recourse to unpublished manuscript remains. In this respect Berger states: After reading Schopenhauer for some years, I became ...
Dec 1, 2003 · Paperback. $33.95 1 Used from $24.99 2 New from $24.95. Explores the interpretive problems, complexities, and legacies of Schopenhauer's encounter with ancient India. Schopenhauer, perhaps more than any other Western philosopher, has been associated with Asian, and specifically Indian philosophy. The problem in the last 150 years of ...
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May 1, 2004 · It sets out to determine exactly to what degree the formation of Schopenhauer’s system was influenced by his knowledge of Indian philosophy, exposes his Eurocentric prejudices and reactions to India, as well as details how his understanding of the concept of “maya” profoundly affected his theories of knowledge, metaphysics and ethics.
- Douglas L. Berger
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By Douglas L. Berger. Subjects: Philosophy. Imprint: Distribution Partners. Paperback : 9781586842437, 343 pages, May 2004. Paperback $36.95. Request Desk or Examination Copy. Request a Media Review Copy. Share this: Explores the interpretive problems, complexities, and legacies of Schopenhauer’s encounter with ancient India.
Dec 1, 2003 · Douglas L. Berger. Explores the interpretive problems, complexities, and legacies of Schopenhauer's encounter with ancient India. Schopenhauer, perhaps more than any other Western philosopher, has been associated with Asian, and specifically Indian philosophy. The problem in the last 150 years of commentarial literature has been assessing what ...
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This dissertation will establish that, while Schopenhauer did treat some aspects of pre-systematic Hindu and Buddhist thought superficially, he did appropriate the Upanis&dotbelow;dic notion of maya into his epistemology as a thesis of falsification, and this had great effects on his metaphysics of will and ethics of identification and ...
"The Veil of Maya": Schopenhauer's System and Early Indian Thought. By Douglas Berger. Binghamton: Global Academic Publishing, 2004. Pp. 319. Arthur Schopenhauer's (1788-1860) philosophy combines a number of inquiries into epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and psychology.
