“The Ancient Rhapsodies of Truth” – Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Max Müller and the Hermeneutics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Contents ix
5. Introduction 1
6. (I) Understanding
7. Philosophizing Under the Influence – Schopenhauer’s Indian Thought 9
8. The Upaniṣads – Schopenhauer’s Solace of Life and Death 19
9. Suspected of Buddhism –Śaṅkara Dārāṣekoh and Schopenhauer 31
10. “The Ancient Rhapsodies of Truth” – Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Max Müller and the Hermeneutics 63
11. (II) Philosophemes
12. The Overcoming of the Individual in Schopenhauer’s Ethics of Compassion, Illustrated by the Sanskrit Formula of the ‘tat tvam asi’ 97
13. The Relationship between Will and Intellect in Schopenhauer with Particular Regard to His Use of the Expression “Veil of māyā” 109
14. The Indian Context of Schopenhauer’s ‘Holy Man’ or ‘Beautifu Soul’ 119
15. All Is Suffering – Reexamining the Logic of ‘Indian Pessimism’ 129
16. The Denial of the Will-to-Live in Schopenhauer’s World and His Association between Buddhist and Christian Saints 149
17. (III) Philosophers
18. Transcending Egoism through Moral Praxis – Schopenhauer and Vivekānanda 187
19. Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein and Indian Philosophy: Some Forgotten Linkages 201
20. (IV) Literature
21. Schopenhauer and Tagore on the Key to Dreamland 215
22. Bibliography 233
23. Contributors 245
24. Author Index 247
25. Subject Index 251