Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge
Epistemology in the Pāli Canon against its Vedic, Upaniṣadic, Materialist, Ājīvika and Jain background: authority, reason, logic, language and experience.
- Language
- English
- Author
- K. N. Jayatilleke
- Extent
- 2,600 passages, 196,605 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · George Allen & Unwin, London 1963; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by Gemini… · In copyright (K. N. Jayatilleke †1970); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 13 parts
- c2 Foreword — 4 parts
- c3 Preface — 18 parts
- c4 Contents — 20 parts
- c5 Abbreviations — 2 parts
- c6 Chapter I: The Historical Background I—Vedic — 218 parts
- c7 Chapter II: The Historical Background II—Non-Vedic I—Materialism — 177 parts
- c8 Chapter III: The Historical Background III—Non-Vedic II—Sceptics, Ājīvikas and Jains — 242 parts
- c9 Chapter IV: The Attitude to Authority — 114 parts
- c10 Chapter V: The Attitude to Reason — 267 parts
- c11 Chapter VI: Analysis and Meaning — 277 parts
- c12 Chapter VII: Logic and Truth — 155 parts
- c13 Chapter VIII: Authority and Reason within Buddhism — 209 parts
- c14 Chapter IX: The Means and Limits of Knowledge — 284 parts
- c15 Appendix I — 13 parts
- c16 Chronological Table of Schools — 2 parts
- c17 Bibliography — 2 parts
- c18 Index — 416 parts