Quietism, Agnosticism and Mysticism : Mapping the Philosophical Discourse of the East and the West /

This book presents a unique collection of papers on various philosophical aspects of the unknown and unvoiced truth and reality of the cosmic world. It offers a systematic analysis of the three philosophical theories of Quietism, Agnosticism and Mysticism and introduces readers to the fundamentals o...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pathak, Krishna Mani (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is Philosophical Quietism (Wittgensteinian and otherwise)?
  • Silence as a Therapeutic Device: A Case for Śūnyavāda as Philosophical Quietism
  • Rationalistic Value Realism as a Religion without God: An Option for Metaethical Quietism
  • Does the Ineffability of Brahman lead to Quietism? Śaṅkara on the Indispensability of Language
  • Sañjaya's ajñanavāda and Mahāvīra's anekāntavāda: From Agnosticism to Pluralism
  • Agnosticism, Atheism and Naturalism's Imaginaire: A Defense of God and Religion
  • Mystical Theistic Ineffability and Agnosticism
  • An Agnostic Deconstruction of Mysticism and the Philosophical Value of its Truth Claims
  • Plotinus and Godlike Virtues
  • Connection between Faith and Reason in Religious Mysticism
  • Mysticism of Experience, Faith in Communication: Nietzsche and Kierkegaard
  • Encoded Language as Mystical Revelation Among the Bāuls of West Bengal
  • The Cosmic World, the Mystical Mind and the Vedic Concept of Origination.