Consciousness and Knowledge in Indian Philosophy外文翻译.pdf

Consciousness and Knowledge in Indian Philosophy Author(s): J. N. Mohanty Reviewed work(s): Source: Philosophy East and West, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Jan., 1979), pp. 3-10 Published by: University of Hawaii Press Stable URL: /stable/1398894 . Accessed: 16/11/2011 23:51 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms Conditions of Use, available at . /page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@. University of Hawaii Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Philosophy East and West. J. N. Mohanty Consciousness and knowledge in Indian philosophy* One of the patternsthat emerges from the enormously complex and complicated discussions in the epistemologies of the Indian philosophies is the way meta- physical disputes are made to depend on the epistemological, and the latter again on theories about the nature of consciousness. If we take one central metaphysical dispute, namely, that between the idealism of the Vijinnavadin Buddhist and the realism of the Hindu philosophers (Nyaya and Mimamsa, in particular), the enormous disputational literature in Sanskrit that centers around it shows this common pattern. The realism-idealismissue-the question whether there are things external to the knowing mind or, more radically, whether all objects of knowledge exist independently of their knowledge-is made dependent on questions about the nature of knowledge and consciousness. In this article, I want to bring out, and comment upon, the nature of th