Schopenhauer in context: the "oriental renaissance" -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Hinduism -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Buddhism -- "Representation": Schopenhauer and the reality-status of the world -- The reality-status of the empirical world: the Mādhyamika teaching -- Advaita Vedānta: the world as illusory appearance -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's doctrine of representation and its Indian affinities -- Schopenhauer's conception of the world as will -- Schopenhauer: the will in its general forms (ideas) -- Metaphysical factors behind the empirical world: Advaita Vedānta -- The arising of the empirical world in Buddhism: the Yogācāra teaching -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's will and comparable Indian ideas -- The ontological status of will -- Beyond the will: "better consciousness" and the "pure subject of knowing" -- The hidden compass: Schopenhauer and the limits of philosophy -- Schopenhauer and Indian thought.
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Monograph / Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy ; no. 24
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