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Author(s): Matthew R. Dasti, Edwin F. Bryant
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Year: 2013
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ISBN 13: 9780199922758
Author: Matthew R Dasti, Edwin F Bryant

Led by Buddhists and the yoga traditions of Hinduism and Jainism, Indian thinkers have long engaged in a rigorous analysis and reconceptualization of our common notion of self. Less understood is the way in which such theories of self intersect with issues involving agency and free will; yet such intersections are profoundly important, as all major schools of Indian thought recognize that moral goodness and religious fulfillment depend on the proper understanding of personal agency. Moreover, their individual conceptions of agency and freedom are typically nodes by which an entire school’s epistemological, ethical, and metaphysical perspectives come together as a systematic whole. Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy explores the contours of this issue, from the perspectives of the major schools of Indian thought. With new essays by leading specialists in each field, this volume provides rigorous analysis of the network of issues surrounding agency and freedom as developed within Indian thought.

Free Will Agency and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy 1st Table of contents:

1. Agency in S a . khya and Yoga: The Unchangeability of the Eternal
Sources
The Problem: The Axiom of Changelessness in Samkhya Metaphysics
The Location of Agency in Samkhya Sources
Samkhya Objections to a Ny a ya Purvapaksa
Objections (Purvapaksa) to the Samkhya Position
Agency in the Samkhya of the Bhagavad Gita : Hermeneutical Dilemmas
Conclusion

2. Free Persons, Empty Selves: Freedom and Agency in Light of the Two Truths
Karma, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility
Freedoms Enjoyed by Ordinary Persons and Noble Beings
The Two Truths: About Persons and Dharmas
Conclusion: Free Persons, Empty Selves

3. Free Will and Voluntarism in Jainism
The Acaranga Sutra
The Tattvartha Sutra
The Yogadrstisamuccaya
Divine Will? Human Will!
Soul without Attachment According to Kundakunda
Conclusion

4. Paninian Grammarians on Agency and Independence
Introduction
Patanjali on Participants in Actions
Bhartrhari on the Semantic Properties of Agents
Animate and Inanimate Agents
True Agents Considered To Be Sentient Intelligent Beings
Atman “Self”
Conclusion 109

5. Nyaya’s Self as Agent and Knower
Volition as a Property of the Self
Cognitive Agency
Analyses of Agency
Against Samkhaya’s Frictionless Self
Conclusion

6. Freedom Because of Duty: The Problem of Agency in Mimamsa
What Is Mimamsa?
Is there an Analogue of Free Will in Indian Philosophy?
Agent’s Causation
Causality and Determinism
Source of Ethics
Conclusion

7. Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: Freedom, Agency and Ethics for Madhyamikas
Freedom of the Will and Theodicy
Why Worry about Freedom and Determinism?
Pratityasamutpada in Action: Why These Problems Can’t Arise for a Madhyamika
Some Bad Arguments for Supposed Buddhist Doctrines of Freedom of the Will
Madhyamaka and Persons: The Two Truths
Agency and Responsibility in Madhyamaka
Freedom on the Path; Freedom from Samsara

8. Self, Causation, and Agency in the Advaita of Sankara
Sankara on Causality
Suresvara on “Non-action” (naiskarmya)
Alternate Models of Causation in Advaita
Conclusion

9. The Linguistics and Cosmology of Agency in Nondual Kashmiri Saiva Thought
The Quest for Power in Nondual Kashmiri Saivism, Pratyabhijna Philosophy, and Pratyabhijna-Based Her
Semantics and Syntax of Action and Agency
Agency and Linguistic Indexicals
Cosmological Transformations of Agency
Conclusion: Directions for Further Research

10. Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Ramanuja
Selfhood and Agency in General
Divine Agency and Human Freedom
The “Renunciation” of Agency and the Release of the Finite Self
Agency and Selfhood in the Liberated State
Conclusion

11. Dependent Agency and Hierarchical Determinism in the Theology of Madhva
Madhva in the Context of Indian Intellectual History
Dependent Agency: Madhva on Brahmasutras 2.3.33–42
Control and Responsibility: Madhva on Brahmasutras 2.1.35–37
Determinism and the Hierarchy of Selves
Madhva and Theodicy
Considering Madhva’s Legacy
Conclusion

12. Agency in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Tradition
Characteristics of the Self in the Paramatma Sandarbha

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