Indian Logic and Atomism: An Exposition of the Ny?ya and Vaice?ika Systems

Name : Indian Logic and Atomism: An Exposition of the Ny?ya and Vaice?ika Systems

Author : Arthur Berriedale Keith

Book Format : Paperback

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121299763

Language : English

Pages : 201-300 Pages

Publish Year : 2021

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About The Book : An Exposition of the Ny?ya and Vaiçe?ika SystemsWhile the philosophy of the Vedanta is well known in Europe, the Nyaya and Vaicesika, the Indian systems of logic and realism, have attracted hardly a tithe of the interest due to them as able and earnest efforts to solve the problems of knowledge and being on the basis of reasoned argument. The systems are indeed orthodox, and admit the authority of the sacred scriptures, but they attack the problems of existence with human means, and scripture serves for all practical purposes but to lend sanctity to results which are achieved not only without its aid, but often in very dubious harmony with its tenets. About The Author : Arthur Berriedale Keith (1879 – 1944) was a Scottish constitutional lawyer, scholar of Sanskrit and Indologist. He became Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology and Lecturer on the Constitution of the British Empire in the University of Edinburgh. He served in this role from 1914 to 1944. Arthur Berriedale Keith was born in Edinburgh. Keith was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh (MA 1897; DLitt 1914), and Balliol College, Oxford (BA 1900; BCL 1905; DCL 1911). At Oxford he took Firsts in firsts in classical moderations (1899), in Sanskrit and Pali (1900), and in literae humaniores (1901). He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1904 a

Country of Origin : India