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Lokāyata/Cārvāka: A Philosophical Inquiry by Pradeep P. Gokhale (review)

Lokāyata/Cārvāka: A Philosophical Inquiry by Pradeep P. Gokhale (review) Olberding, Amy. 2012. Moral Exemplars in the Analects: The Good Person is That. New York and London: Routledge. Riggs, Wayne. 2010. “Open-mindedness.” Metaphilosophy 41, nos. 1/2 : 172–188. Tan, Sor-hoon, ed. 2016. The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Meth- odologies. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. Zagzebski, Linda [Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski]. 1996. Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press. ———. 2010. “Exemplarist Virtue Theory.” Metaphilosophy 41, nos. 1/2 : 41–57. Lokāyata /Cārvāka: A Philosophical Inquiry. By Pradeep P. Gokhale. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 222. Rs. 750; £21.99, isbn 978-0-19-946063-2. Reviewed by Ethan Mills University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Ethan-Mills@utc.edu The greatest strength of Pradeep P. Gokhale’s Lokāyata /Cārvāka: A Philosophical In- quiry is its much-needed enrichment of the vocabulary for the study of the Indian Lokāyata /Cārvāka school. For too long this school has been studied in the rather limited terms of its opponents in texts such as Mādhava’s Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha, which identify a single Cārvāka position advocating extreme empiricism in episte- mology, materialism in metaphysics, and hedonism and irreligiousness in ethics. Gokhale establishes frameworks for understanding the diversity of epistemological, metaphysical, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophy East and West University of Hawai'I Press

Lokāyata/Cārvāka: A Philosophical Inquiry by Pradeep P. Gokhale (review)

Mills, Ethan
Philosophy East and West , Volume 68 (2) – Apr 10, 2018
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Olberding, Amy. 2012. Moral Exemplars in the Analects: The Good Person is That. New York and London: Routledge. Riggs, Wayne. 2010. “Open-mindedness.” Metaphilosophy 41, nos. 1/2 : 172–188. Tan, Sor-hoon, ed. 2016. The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Meth- odologies. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. Zagzebski, Linda [Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski]. 1996. Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press. ———. 2010. “Exemplarist Virtue Theory.” Metaphilosophy 41, nos. 1/2 : 41–57. Lokāyata /Cārvāka: A Philosophical Inquiry. By Pradeep P. Gokhale. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 222. Rs. 750; £21.99, isbn 978-0-19-946063-2. Reviewed by Ethan Mills University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Ethan-Mills@utc.edu The greatest strength of Pradeep P. Gokhale’s Lokāyata /Cārvāka: A Philosophical In- quiry is its much-needed enrichment of the vocabulary for the study of the Indian Lokāyata /Cārvāka school. For too long this school has been studied in the rather limited terms of its opponents in texts such as Mādhava’s Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha, which identify a single Cārvāka position advocating extreme empiricism in episte- mology, materialism in metaphysics, and hedonism and irreligiousness in ethics. Gokhale establishes frameworks for understanding the diversity of epistemological, metaphysical,

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