On Being and What There is: Classical Vaisesika and the History of Indian Ontology by Wilhelm Halbfass (Paperback, 1992)

State University of New York Press

0791411788

9780791411780

107911032

Wilhelm Halbfass

Trade Paperback (US), Paperback

English

Philosophy

Albany, NY

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

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.

28/07/1992

State University of New York Press

United States