Experience and Philosophy

Chethimattam, John B

Experience and Philosophy - Bangalore Dharmaram Publications 1996 - 312p - Dharma Endowment Lectures; 199600ENGGPC1 .

includes index and biblioraphy

INTRODUCTION 1 The Consciousness Behind the Crisis 5 Consciousness Fostered by Modern Science 6 The Post-modern Scientific Consciousness 8 The Dialectics of Post-modern Consciousness 10 Dimensions of Consciousness 11 The Indian Idea of Consciousness 19 Beyond the Subject-Object Dichotomy 20 The Parallelism Between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm 25 Concrete Experience and the Biological Emphasis 28 The Upanishadic Thought on Consciousness 30 Systematic Philosophy of Consciousness 32 Order of Topics in This Discussion 35 LIFE-WORLD AND PHILOSOPHY From Descartes to Habermas Heidegger`s Hermeneutical Phenomenology Merleau-Ponty`s Perceptual Milieu Communicative Action and the Life-World The Pragmatist Challenge The Problem of Rationality The Philosophical Problematic Today EXPERIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY The Metaphysics of Presence Phenomenological Reduction Philosophy of Negation Experience and Consciousness The AchillesHeel of Western Philosophy THE LIFE-WORLD IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY 73 The Samkhyan Life-World 76 The Buddhist Life-World 80 The Rationality of Indian Darsana 88 Indian Logic 90 The Rationality of Non-Dualism 93 The Rationality of Kaivalya and Nirvana / 96 MYTHICAL CONSCIOUSNESS Myth and Truth The Greek Idea of Myth Myth and Religion Myth as Creative Memory. The Feminine in God Rational Approach to Myth Myth and the Problem of Evil Mythology and Salvation RADICAL HERMENEUTICS Modern Approaches to Meaning Derrida`s Radical Hermeneutics Indian Approach to Hermeneutical Philosophy The Buddhist Radicalism The Aesthetics of Meaning Rationality from Below THE COORDINATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS ffJORAL CONSCIOUSNESS)AND EXPERIENTIAL APPROACH TO MORALITY 223 The Beginnings of Ethical Thought 224 Presentday Approaches to Ethics 227 The Catholic-Protestand Divide 229 Ethics as Social Language 232 Communicative Action and the New Face of Pragmatism 237 The Deconstruction in Ethics 244 The Indian Analysis of Moral Consciousness 248 The Indian Rational Approach to Morality 253 Human Suffering and the Inner Moral Law 256 Towards a World Morality 258 EXPERIENCE THEEND F_EHILOSOPHY 265 The Commonsense Level of Experience 269 Experience and Science 274 An Experiential Metaphysics 276 The Indian Idea of Experience: Anubhava 280 The Experience of the Other 284 Religious Experience 288 Towards a World-Philosophy 296

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