Self and agency : a defence of Praśastapāda's differential naturalism

This thesis discusses the Vaiśeṣika philosopher Praśastapāda's conception of self in his text, the Padārthadharmasaṃgraha, and its key commentaries. It examines the arguments these texts propose for the existence of a self that is non-physical and yet non-Cartesian, based in a paradigm I term ‘...

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Main Author: Sinha, Shalini
Published: University of Sussex 2014
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606040