Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata
| By: | Ramkrishna Bhattacharya |
| Publisher: | Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic |
| Print ISBN: | 9780857284334 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780857289926 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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‘Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata’ is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and the twelfth century CE. This study seeks to disprove certain notions about the Carvaka/Lokayata, particularly the following: that the Carvaka-s did not approve of any other instrument of cognition except perception; and that they advocated unalloyed sensualism and hedonism. This volume also seeks to establish the fact that there existed a pre-Carvaka school of materialism in India, although there is no way to prove that the Carvaka system grew out of it.