Contents
Foreword - Veena Poonacha Vll
Preface X1ll
Acknowledgement xxv
Introduction: Philosophizing as Women 1
Part 1
Colonial Perspectives1. Pandita Ramabai and Feminism in Colonial 33
India: Tradition, Modernity and DomesticNurture
The Construction of Indian Womanhood 34
Ramabai's Feminist Voice 51
Women in Indian Philosophy 632. FemininelFeminist Gestures in Colonial 73
England: Mary Wollstonecraft
British Radicalism, Critique of Empire and 74Female Manners
Intersecting Spaces: "Entangled" and 83"Embattled"
Female Ancestry 92
Part 2
Postcolonial Contexts, Perspectives
3. The Ethics of Care: Carol Gilligan 105
Critique of Mainstream Ethics 107
The Perspective of Care 118Care in Patriarchal and Colonial Contexts 123
4. Integrating Justice and Care: Susan Okin 142
Justice and Family: Critique of Rawls 143
A Feminist Reinterpretation of Rawls 147
Gender Justice: Liberalism and the Family 153
5. Rethinking Freedom and Care: Simone 180de Beauvoir
The Disquietitudes of Individualist Freedom 182
Relational Freedom, Embodied Situation and 192
Ambiguity
Reproductive Freedom in Global Contexts 212
Afterword: Towards Global Feminisms 223
Bibliography 242
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Contents
Prologue
Preamble
1. Formulation of Advaitism - Sailkara
Analysis of Propositional Form: Subject andPredicate
Principle of Predication
First Statement: Srnrtirupal).-Paratra
Purvadr1?ta-Avabhasal).
Second Statement: Anyasya Anyadharma
Avabha1?atamThird Statement: Atasmin Tadbuddhi
Resultant Concept
Atman: Defining Characteristics
Sat-Cit-Ananda
Identity of Atman and Brahman
2. Metaphysics of Advaita Vedanta:A Review - G.R. Malkani
Advaita Theology
Elucidation of Advaita Doctrine
Advaita Criterion of Reality
Ultimate Reality and Causal Doctrine
Analysis of Svarupa L~at:la of Brahman
Sat (Being)
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Advaita Metaphysics
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Malkani: Theistic Monism
Murty: Critique of Non-Dualism
Misra: Linguistic Analysis of Advaita ConceptsBibliography
Index
ADVAITA METAPHYSICS
Cit (Intelligence)
Ananda (Bliss)
Identity of Jlva and Brahman
3. Critique of Advaitism - K.S. MurtyDefinition of Brahman: Annotation
Satyam (Reality)
Jftanam (Knowledge)
Anantam (Infinity)
Advaita Methodology: Anubhava andRevelation: Analysis
Anubhava
Revelation
Reason
4. Sailkara Vedanta: An AlternativePerspective - Ganeswar Misra
Method of Advaita Vedanta: Sabda PramaI:1a
Adhyasa
Identity Proposition (AkhaJ:.l<;larthaVakya)
Saccidananda: An AnalysisSat
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Dr Tapti Maitra has an eventful
academic career, with post-graduation
from the University of Calcutta. She
joined Orissa Education Service and sub
sequently, Post Graduate Department of
Philosophy, Utkal University. Besides
several research publications to hercredit, she has authored A Constructive
Study of Advaita Conception of Mind. She is
greatly devoted to the study of AdvaitaVedanta of Sankara. She is known for her
in-depth study of the seminal conceptsand foundational issues in Advaita
Vedanta from the logico-linguistic
perspective.
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Upanif?ads have been viewed differently
by commentators down the centuries.Philosophers have brought in their native
presuppositions in interpreting theUpanif?adic texts. Advaitavada (monism)of Sankara stands out conspicuous
among the varied interpretations of the
Upanif?ads. Ontology, having been basicand fundamental, logic, epistemology
and ethics are parasitic on it. Thinkers likeG.R. Malkani, K.S. Murty and G. Misra
offer alternative perspectives in under
standing concepts and doctrines of the
Upanif?ads.
This book undertakes the study of
Advaitavada of Sankara in its depth and
extension. It spells out the relative
cogency of Malkani's understanding ofAdvaita Metaphysics and Methodology,
Murty's Critique of Advaita (non
dualism) and Misra's PhilosophicalConstruction of Advaita from a linguistic
perspective. This volume centres aroundthe formulations of the Advaita theory of
monism on the basis of epistemological
and logical analysis of knowledge in
Adhyiisa Bhii!?ya.
This title is a significant addition to the
existing literature on Advaita philosophyand shall be of profound interest for
scholars at large.