Contents

Foreword - Veena Poonacha Vll

Preface X1ll

Acknowledgement xxv

Introduction: Philosophizing as Women 1

Part 1

Colonial Perspectives1. Pandita Ramabai and Feminism in Colonial 33

India: Tradition, Modernity and DomesticNurture

The Construction of Indian Womanhood 34

Ramabai's Feminist Voice 51

Women in Indian Philosophy 632. FemininelFeminist Gestures in Colonial 73

England: Mary Wollstonecraft

British Radicalism, Critique of Empire and 74Female Manners

Intersecting Spaces: "Entangled" and 83"Embattled"

Female Ancestry 92

Part 2

Postcolonial Contexts, Perspectives

3. The Ethics of Care: Carol Gilligan 105

Critique of Mainstream Ethics 107

The Perspective of Care 118Care in Patriarchal and Colonial Contexts 123

4. Integrating Justice and Care: Susan Okin 142

Justice and Family: Critique of Rawls 143

A Feminist Reinterpretation of Rawls 147

Gender Justice: Liberalism and the Family 153

5. Rethinking Freedom and Care: Simone 180de Beauvoir

The Disquietitudes of Individualist Freedom 182

Relational Freedom, Embodied Situation and 192

Ambiguity

Reproductive Freedom in Global Contexts 212

Afterword: Towards Global Feminisms 223

Bibliography 242

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Contents

Prologue

Preamble

1. Formulation of Advaitism - Sailkara

Analysis of Propositional Form: Subject andPredicate

Principle of Predication

First Statement: Srnrtirupal).-Paratra­

Purvadr1?ta-Avabhasal).

Second Statement: Anyasya Anyadharma

Avabha1?atamThird Statement: Atasmin Tadbuddhi

Resultant Concept

Atman: Defining Characteristics

Sat-Cit-Ananda

Identity of Atman and Brahman

2. Metaphysics of Advaita Vedanta:A Review - G.R. Malkani

Advaita Theology

Elucidation of Advaita Doctrine

Advaita Criterion of Reality

Ultimate Reality and Causal Doctrine

Analysis of Svarupa L~at:la of Brahman

Sat (Being)

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Advaita Metaphysics

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Malkani: Theistic Monism

Murty: Critique of Non-Dualism

Misra: Linguistic Analysis of Advaita ConceptsBibliography

Index

ADVAITA METAPHYSICS

Cit (Intelligence)

Ananda (Bliss)

Identity of Jlva and Brahman

3. Critique of Advaitism - K.S. MurtyDefinition of Brahman: Annotation

Satyam (Reality)

Jftanam (Knowledge)

Anantam (Infinity)

Advaita Methodology: Anubhava andRevelation: Analysis

Anubhava

Revelation

Reason

4. Sailkara Vedanta: An AlternativePerspective - Ganeswar Misra

Method of Advaita Vedanta: Sabda PramaI:1a

Adhyasa

Identity Proposition (AkhaJ:.l<;larthaVakya)

Saccidananda: An AnalysisSat

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Dr Tapti Maitra has an eventful

academic career, with post-graduation

from the University of Calcutta. She

joined Orissa Education Service and sub­

sequently, Post Graduate Department of

Philosophy, Utkal University. Besides

several research publications to hercredit, she has authored A Constructive

Study of Advaita Conception of Mind. She is

greatly devoted to the study of AdvaitaVedanta of Sankara. She is known for her

in-depth study of the seminal conceptsand foundational issues in Advaita

Vedanta from the logico-linguistic

perspective.

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Upanif?ads have been viewed differently

by commentators down the centuries.Philosophers have brought in their native

presuppositions in interpreting theUpanif?adic texts. Advaitavada (monism)of Sankara stands out conspicuous

among the varied interpretations of the

Upanif?ads. Ontology, having been basicand fundamental, logic, epistemology

and ethics are parasitic on it. Thinkers likeG.R. Malkani, K.S. Murty and G. Misra

offer alternative perspectives in under­

standing concepts and doctrines of the

Upanif?ads.

This book undertakes the study of

Advaitavada of Sankara in its depth and

extension. It spells out the relative

cogency of Malkani's understanding ofAdvaita Metaphysics and Methodology,

Murty's Critique of Advaita (non­

dualism) and Misra's PhilosophicalConstruction of Advaita from a linguistic

perspective. This volume centres aroundthe formulations of the Advaita theory of

monism on the basis of epistemological

and logical analysis of knowledge in

Adhyiisa Bhii!?ya.

This title is a significant addition to the

existing literature on Advaita philosophyand shall be of profound interest for

scholars at large.