Being Is Relating
Continuity-in-Change in the Sambandhasiddhi of Utpaladeva
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3307039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Maccracken (0000-0001-6944-6981, California Institute of Integral Studies, corresponding author), Sean K Maccracken |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel14010057 |
| OpenAlex | W4313238076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
Relation-theories-theories on the metaphysical status of relations-have for some time stood at the center of disputes between realism and idealism. To such disputes, this paper contributes insights from an understudied premodern source, the Sambandhasiddhi (Proof of Relation). Its author Utpaladeva (c. 925-975 C.E.) is the Śaiva philosopher of India best known as an innovator in the Pratyabhijñā (Doctrine of Recognition) school of Kashmiri Śaivism. This lesser-known late text shows Utpaladeva deploying an even more explicitly Bhartṛharian grammatical view of reality than he had previously. He argues against his chief rival and predecessor, the Buddhist epistemologist, Dharmakīrti (c. 6th or 7th C.E.), while modifying the latter's epistemic idealism to an objective idealism. This text differs from Utpaladeva's prior works in its sustained attack on Dharmakīrti's nominalism and citation of the Buddhist's own writings. The Sambandhasiddhi accordingly offers an interesting glimpse at a sustained treatment on relations, a topic that is important to Utpaladeva's prior arguments, but that he considered perhaps not sufficiently developed, so as to warrant a separate treatment. A few brief comments are also offered on how Utpaladeva's relation-theory might fit alongside Russell's disputes with Bradley over relations, and Utpaladeva's affinity with Peircean semiosis
Buddhism · Doctrine · Epistemology · Idealism · Metaphysics · Realism · Theology · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |