Elisa Freschi: One God, One System, Gebunden

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One God, One System charts a history of Sanskrit philosophy in the absence of an agreed-upon canon, timeline, principal thinkers, or core philosophical questions. Contrary to previous ahistorical approaches centered on unchanging 'schools', Elisa Freschi focuses on andreconstructs the intellectual figure of Vekäantha and his philosophical and theological contribution to what we now call 'Viidvaita Vednta'.

This volume explores how Viidvaita Vednta as we know it now is largely a product of Vekäantha's unique philosophical and theological contributions. He connected various texts and theories so that readers and practitioners looking at the time before Vekäantha now recognize them as parts of a unitary whole. Once Vekäantha's contribution is in place it is in fact easy to look back at authors before him and recognize them as pieces of the same jigsaw puzzle. Freschi presents a novel reading of Vekäantha through focused chapters on his epistemology, ontology, soteriology, and theology, examining both the range and theoretical basis of his synthesis and methodology.