Śrī Harṣa contra Hegel: Monism, Skeptical Method, and the Limits of Reason

A. Maharaj

DOI:10.1353/pew.2014.0010

Corpus ID: 170532752

Śrī Harṣa contra Hegel: Monism, Skeptical Method, and the Limits of Reason

@article{Maharaj2014rHC,
  title={Śrī Harṣa contra Hegel: Monism, Skeptical Method, and the Limits of Reason},
  author={A. Maharaj},
  journal={Philosophy East and West},
  year={2014},
  volume={64},
  pages={108 - 82}
}

A. Maharaj

Published 2014

Philosophy

Philosophy East and West

This essay identifies salient points of affinity and divergence in the monistic metaphysics and skeptical methodologies of the German idealist Hegel and the Indian Advaitin Śrī Harṣa. Remarkably, both Śrī Harṣa’s Khaṇḍanakhaṇṇakhādya (ca. 1170) and Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) attempt to defend a monistic standpoint exclusively by means of a sustained critique of non-monistic philosophical positions. It is argued here, however, that Śrī Harṣa and Hegel diverge sharply in their… CONTINUE READING

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