Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2024
Publication Title
Philosophy East and West
Abstract
The Subject As Freedom (1930) is correctly regarded as Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya’s (henceforth KCB) magnum opus. This text relies on a set of ideas and evolves from a set of concerns that KCB develops more explicitly in two essays written both before and after that text, which might be regarded as its intellectual bookends. Those ideas are important and fascinating in their own right. They also illuminate KCB’s engagement with Kant and with the Vedānta tradition as well as his understanding of freedom itself, including its soteriological dimension. These two essays are “Saṅkara’s Doctrine of Māyā” (1930) and “The Advaita and Its Spiritual Significance” (1936).
While KCB drew insights from many Indian philosophical schools, his lodestone is Advaita Vedānta. Indeed, of all of his studies of the classical schools (each of which is contained in his Nachlass, edited by his son Gopinath), his Studies in Vedānta is the only one that was polished to the point that it can be considered a completed treatise
Volume
74
Issue
1
First Page
3
Last Page
25
DOI
10.1353/pew.2024.a918467
Rights
© 2024 by University of Hawai‘i Press
Recommended Citation
Bhushan, Nalini and Garfield, Jay L., "Māyā and Mokṣa: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Spiritual Philosophy as a Vedāntin Critique of Kant" (2024). Philosophy: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/phi_facpubs/77
Comments
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