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Implicit anthropologies in pre-philosophical Śaivism with reference to the Netra Tantra
- Abstract:
- While there are overt philosophies of the person in both dualistic and non-dualistic Śaivism that developed their doctrines explicitly in relation to each other and to non-Śaiva traditions, especially Buddhism, many Śaiva texts exemplify what might be called a pre-philosophical discourse. Such works contain philosophical ideas but do not present systematic arguments (that is the job of later commentators) and are often regarded as divine revelation (namely the tantras but other genres of literature might also be included such as paddhatis). It is this layer of the articulation of concepts linked to practices that the paper exposes, which the arguments of the later philosophers reflect upon and from which they develop. The claim here is that through an analysis of pre-philosophical literature, texts such as the Netra-tantra, we can build a picture of the conceptual universe of the early medieval period that forms the basis for the development of thinking by the later philosophers. One way of doing this is through the micro-study of particular textual passages and from that to build a larger picture of pre-philosophical discourse.
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- 10.1007/s10781-020-09435-0
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- Springer
- Journal:
- Journal of Indian Philosophy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 48
- Pages:
- 675-701
- Publication date:
- 2020-07-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-09-04
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1573-0395
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0022-1791
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English
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1101514
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2020-04-29
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- Gavin Flood
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- 2020
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