Jonardon Ganeri Quotes
Jonardon Ganeri is a British-Indian philosopher, professor at the University of Toronto, and one of the leading interpreters of classical Indian philosophy in the English-speaking world. The Concealed Art of the Soul reread Indian theories of the self in the light of contemporary philosophy of mind, while The Lost Age of Reason recovered the seventeenth-century Sanskrit philosophical efflorescence in Banaras as a moment of genuinely modern Indian rationality. The quotes below are attributed to Jonardon Ganeri, organized by topic.
Jonardon Ganeri on Knowledge
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Attributed to Jonardon Ganeri:
“The history of Indian philosophy is a history of arguments, not of doctrines.”
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Attributed to Jonardon Ganeri:
“Comparative philosophy is not the comparison of finished systems; it is the meeting of living traditions of inquiry.”
Jonardon Ganeri on Mind
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Attributed to Jonardon Ganeri:
“Self-knowledge in the classical Indian schools is at once a moral and an epistemic achievement.”
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“Attention is the medium in which the self appears and disappears.”
Jonardon Ganeri on Time
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“Modernity has many beginnings; one of them is in seventeenth-century Banaras.”