Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Preface
1 Introduction: The Question of Being
2 The Question of Being in India: General HistoricalPerspectives
3 Genesis, Enumeration, and the Question of Being
4 The Vaisesika Categories: An Introductory Survey
5 The Vaisesika Concept of Substance
6 The Vaisesika Concept of Guna and the Problem ofUniversals
7 The Conceptualization of Being in Classical Vaisesika
8 Genesis and Temporal Existence in Early and Classical Vaisesika
9 The Vaisesika Concept of Time
10 Epilogue
Appendix 1: Selected Ontological Texts
Appendix 2: The Concept of Visesa and the Name of the Vaisesika System
Glossary: Ontological Terms in Classical Vaisesika
Abbreviations
Index
Synopsis
Wilhelm Halbfass (1940-2000) was Professor of Indian Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding; Tradition and Reflection: Explorations in Indian Thought; and the editor of Philology and Confrontation: Paul Hacker on Traditional and Modern Vedanta; all published by SUNY Press.