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Liberation, Ritual, and the Arising of Knowledge

Aleksandar Uskokov

Abstract This chapter examines Śaṅkara’s soteriology by situating his account of liberation within the framework of ritual causality derived from Bhāṭṭa Mīmāṁsā. It argues that Śaṅkara conceptualized the path to liberation and the critical juncture of “arising of knowledge” (jñānotpatti) through principles such as medi...

Postscript

Aleksandar Uskokov

Abstract The Postscript explores Sarvajñātman’s nuanced philosophy of language within Advaita Vedānta, focusing on theories of signification, sentence meaning, and identity statements. It contrasts Śaṅkara’s limited treatment of secondary signification (lakṣaṇā) with Sarvajñātman’s systematic reliance on yogyatā (seman...

Liberation and the Inquiry into Brahman

Aleksandar Uskokov

Abstract This chapter focuses on Śaṅkara’s ideas about the inquiry into Brahman through examining the relationship between knowledge, desire, and renunciation. It argues that Śaṅkara reinterprets Vedic injunctions as terminating in cognition rather than action, classifying knowledge of Brahman as prohibitory in kind an...

Dedication

Aleksandar Uskokov

Sarvajñātman and the Doctrine of Upaniṣadic Mahā-vākya

Aleksandar Uskokov

Abstract This chapter examines the historical and conceptual development of the doctrine of Upaniṣadic mahā-vākya (“great statements”) in Advaita Vedānta, arguing that it was not Śaṅkara but his early follower Sarvajñātman who systematized the idea. Beginning with a survey of modern scholarly interpretations, the chapt...

Prasaṅkhyāna and Related Forms of Meditation

Aleksandar Uskokov

Abstract This chapter examines the doctrine of prasaṅkhyāna—a form of meditation appropriated from Yoga and integrated into pre-Śaṅkara Vedānta—as a response to a perceived insufficiency of scriptural knowledge for liberation. It begins with Bhartṛprapañca’s soteriology, which combines ritual and meditation through ass...

The Mīmāṁsā Model of Puruṣārtha and the Role of Scripture

Aleksandar Uskokov

Abstract This chapter reconstructs the Mīmāṁsā model of the human good (puruṣārtha) and its relationship to Vedic scripture. It outlines how Mīmāṁsakas conceive the Veda as a manual of ritual technology aimed at securing human happiness through dharma, understood as a supersensible causal relation knowable only from sc...

Translating Operette morali together

Abbrugiati, Perle

La relazione presenta la traduzione collettiva delle Operette morali in francese che uscirà dall'editore Les Belles Lettres nel 2027.

Recension de l'ouvrage " Géopolitique des espaces maritimes "

Tilot de Grissac, Virginie

L’ouvrage repose sur une proposition centrale : la maritimisation ne saurait être réduite à l’augmentation quantitative des échanges par voie maritime. Elle désigne une transformation structurelle des sociétés contemporaines, devenues matériellement, énergétiquement, technologiquement et politiquement dépendantes des e...

Quakers between France, the County of Nice, and the Vaudois valleys

Orban, Myriam Anny

Cette contribution explore les circulations transnationales anglo-franco-sardes des quakers 1 ainsi que des personnes connectées à leurs réseaux qui ont investi des causes sociales (réformes pénitentiaires, abolitionnisme, antialcoolisme, pacifisme) et ont proposé pour remède l'éducation morale et religieuse et la form...