Bimal Krishna Matilal 1935 – 1991
Bimal Krishna Matilal (1935 – 1991) was an Indian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy and Indian Philosophy.
Bimal Krishna Matilal was an Indian philosopher and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford, widely credited with putting classical Indian philosophy onto the agenda of contemporary analytic philosophy. The Navya-Nyaya Doctrine of Negation, Logic, Language and Reality, and Perception developed sustained comparisons between the technical Indian schools of Nyaya and Mimamsa and the work of Frege, Russell, and Quine, showing that Indian philosophers had grappled with cognate problems in their own technical idiom. The Word and the World and his many essays on dharma extended his concerns to the philosophy of language and to Indian moral philosophy.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Indian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Analytic Philosophy, Indian Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Bimal Krishna Matilal:
“Indian philosophy is not a body of doctrine; it is a tradition of argument.”
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Attributed to Bimal Krishna Matilal:
“The Nyaya theory of perception is not folk psychology; it is rigorous epistemology.”
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Attributed to Bimal Krishna Matilal:
“There is no comparative philosophy without close translation.”
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Attributed to Bimal Krishna Matilal:
“Dharma in the Mahabharata is not a code; it is the ongoing question of what the right thing to do is, in a world that does not arrange itself for us.”
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Attributed to Bimal Krishna Matilal:
“Logic is universal, but its expressions are local.”
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- Bimal Krishna Matilal was an Indian philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Bimal Krishna Matilal was associated with Analytic Philosophy and Indian Philosophy.
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- Bimal Krishna Matilal was an Indian philosopher and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford, widely credited with putting classical Indian philosophy onto the agenda of contemporary analytic philosophy.
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