Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2021
Publication Title
Religions
Abstract
Analytic philosophers have, since the pioneering work of B.K. Matilal, emphasized the contributions of Nyāya philosophers to what contemporary philosophy considers epistemology. More recently, scholarly work demonstrates the relevance of their ideas to argumentation theory, an interdisciplinary area of study drawing on epistemology as well as logic, rhetoric, and linguistics. This paper shows how early Nyāya theorizing about argumentation, from Vātsyāyana to Jayanta Bhaṭṭa, can fruitfully be juxtaposed with the pragma-dialectic approach to argumentation pioneered by Frans van Eemeren. I illustrate the implications of this analysis with a case study from Jayanta Bhaṭṭa’s satirical play, Much Ado about Religion (Āgamaḍambara).
Keywords
Argumentation, Debate, Epistemology, Hinduism, Nyāya, Pramāṇa
Volume
12
Issue
10
DOI
10.3390/rel12100875
Recommended Citation
Keating, Malcolm, "The Pragma-Dialectics of Dispassionate Discourse: Early Nyāya Argumentation Theory" (2021). Philosophy: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/phi_facpubs/69
Comments
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