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Metaphysical Idealism, a Contemporary Perspective
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Metaphysical Idealism, a Contemporary Perspective

By: Ramesh Chandra Pradhan

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This book opposes the dominant materialist view of the universe, which cannot adequately explain conscious phenomena. Taking the primacy of consciousness as a basic postulate, it argues for a metaphysical idealism where human nature is more spiritual than material.

This book puts forth the case for metaphysical idealism, and opposes the dominant concern of contemporary philosophers with understanding man and the universe within materialist…
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This book puts forth the case for metaphysical idealism, and opposes the dominant concern of contemporary philosophers with understanding man and the universe within materialist and naturalist paradigms. The idealist point of view exposes the limitations of realism as a metaphysical theory, and attempts to show that the materialist and naturalist conception of man and nature is not only inadequate, but also certainly false, given the fact that human nature cannot be understood in terms of materialist categories. The book highlights the fact that the world has conscious phenomena which materialism and naturalism cannot adequately explain.
Taking the primacy of consciousness as a basic postulate, the author argues for a metaphysical idealism that aims to show that human nature is more spiritual than material, and that the universe is an intelligible system of cosmic phenomena. In short, the world needs to be understood in terms of mind, which is a primary reality.

Ramesh Chandra Pradhan is former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hyderabad, India. He obtained his PhD from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He was a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at the University of Oxford, England, and a National Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India.
Professor Pradhan specializes in the areas of analytic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of the mind, and metaphysics. His most important publications are: Recent Developments in Analytic Philosophy (2001), The Great Mirror: An Essay on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (2002), Language, Reality and Transcendence: An Essay on the Main Strands of Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy (2008), Mind, Meaning and World: A Transcendental Perspective (2019), Metaphysics of Consciousness: The Indian Vedantic Perspective (2020) and The Early Philosophy of Daya Krishna (2021). He has also published approximately one hundred papers in philosophy journals and anthologies.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-5837-1
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-5837-3
  • Date of Publication: 2023-12-11

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-3175-4
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-3175-4
  • Date of Publication: 2024-12-13

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-5275-5838-X
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-5838-0
  • Date of Publication: 2024-12-13
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