"The Kantian worldview, which always underlay all religion, philosophy, and art, could not have been the eternal truth if it did not emerge more or less clearly everywhere that the human mind penetrated into the depths, as this occurred, for example, in India through the Upanishads of the Vedas and the Vedanta based on them and in Greece through Parmenides and Plato. To consider both these phenomena in the light of the Kantian philosophy is the task that we have set (...) ourselves here." - Paul Deussen Vednata, Plato, and Kant is a new translation. The book presents a defense of Shankara's Advaita Vedānta philosophy as well as an elucidation of the Greek Idealistic doctrines of Parmenides and Plato. In all these schools of thought, Deussen detects a similar basic understanding of the world as a mere appearance distinct from Ideal Reality. He approximated this understanding to the Kantian notion of 'things in themselves' (Dinge-an-sich) and noted a degeneration of the original Vedic and Upanishadic worldview in the philosophies that followed, such as the Sāmkhya and Buddhism, just as there was a corruption of Parmenides' doctrine of Being in the philosophy of his pupil Zeno. Similarly, he believes that Kant's revolutionary Idealistic insights in Germany were also distorted by the post-Kantian thinkers and not generally understood in their original form except by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), who developed the doctrine of the world as a mere representation produced by the innate intuitive forms within the Intellect - Space, Time, and Causality. Includes a preface by Alexander Jacob (Translator). (shrink)

Excerpt from Outline of the Vedanta System of Philosophy According to Shankara HE fundamental idea Of the Vedanta system, as most tersely expressed in the words. Of the Veda, That art thou (tat tvam asil), and I am Brahman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format (...) whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. (shrink)

In this work-originally published in German in 1906 and translated into English two years later-Deussen explores the place of the Upanishads in the literature ...

Excerpt from Allgemeine Geschichte der Philosophie: Mit Besonderer Berucksichtigung der Religionen Dei als Icritjlcer ausgezeichnete, aber philosophisch weniger gut beratene Verfasser des beruhmten Lebens -lesu, David Friedrich Straufs, wirft in der Schrift seines Alters, Der alte und der neue Glaube die Frage auf:, Sind wir noch Christen? und beantwortet sie Init einem klaren und entschiedenen Nein. XVer aber imstande ist, den philosophischen Kern aus der historischen und daher zufalligen Schale zu losen, wer nicht bei den blossen XVorten stel1e 11 bleibt (...) und eine Sache auch da wiederzuerkeiinen vermag, wo sie unter anderm Namen und in neuer Einkleidung auftritt, der wird auch nach allen Errungenschaften der Geschichtsforschung, Naturwissenschaft und Philosophie die von Straufs aufgeworfene und verneinte Frage: Sind wir noch Christen? mit einem ebenso klaren und entschiedenen Ja beantworten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.". (shrink)