Vātsyāyana's Commentary on the Nyāya-sūtra
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- ISBN 9780197625934
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 142 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 03 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Vātsyāyana's Commentary on the Nyāya-sūtra is one of classical India's most important philosophical works. This Guide offers both a map and interpretation of this challenging canonical text, suitable for any student or novice reader.
Treating them as a single hybrid text, the Nyāya-sūtra with Vātsyāyana's commentary systematizes in skeletal form centuries of ancient Indian philosophical developments concerning logic, epistemology, and dialectics, while also defending a realist categorial metaphysics. It offers a number of epistemological and methodological insights that inform intellectual inquiry in the Subcontinent for over a millennium. Vātsyāyana's Commentary also provides sophisticated arguments for distinct positions in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and value theory that stand amongst the best contributions to world philosophy.
This guide, accessible to students and researchers not familiar with classical Indian philosophy, provides a distilled, accessible understanding of the major scholarly, historical, and philosophical issues that inform the Commentary, while unpacking its philosophical content such that it speaks to modern readers. It also illustrates the way that the Commentary may serve as a lens through which to view the formative period of classical Indian philosophy.
Matthew R. Dasti is Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University. His research focuses on the “orthodox” schools of classical Indian philosophy, especially early Nyaya and its theory of knowledge. He is co-author of God and the World's Arrangement: Readings from Vedanta and Nyaya Philosophy of Religion (2021) and The Nyāya-sūtra: Selections with Early Commentaries (2017), and is the co-editor of Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy (2014).
