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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions. Its 438 essays are original work written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The encyclopedia presents a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the divergent perspectives and methods in the academic study of a religion that has ancient historical roots with many flourishing traditions today. Including all essays from the heralded printed edition, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is now to be regularly updated with new articles and available in a fully searchable, dynamic digital format.
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Edited by: Knut A. Jacobsen (Editor-in-Chief), University of Bergen, and Helene Basu, University of Münster, Angelika Malinar, University of Zürich, Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida (Associate Editors)
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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions. Its 438 essays are original work written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The encyclopedia presents a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the divergent perspectives and methods in the academic study of a religion that has ancient historical roots with many flourishing traditions today. Including all essays from the heralded printed edition, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is now to be regularly updated with new articles and available in a fully searchable, dynamic digital format.
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Nyāya and Navyanyāya
(11,224 words)
The name Nyāya, by which one of the major
darśanas or schools of philosophical thought in the broad Indian (Brahmanical) system is also known, has its etymological roots in the cryptic term
naya, used for the skillful art of reasoning by the famed author of the
Arthaśāstra, Kauṭilya (see
artha) – writing around 321–296 BCE (which also makes him a distant contemporary of the young Macedonian rationalist Aristotle, in Alexander’s court). More than a mere preoccupation with the
technē of ratiocination (as in Greece of the time), Kauṭilya intended
naya as logic to be part of the large…
Date:
2020-05-18