Panentheistic Cosmopsychism: Swami Vivekananda’s Sāṃkhya-Vedāntic Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Ayon Maharaj
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This chapter provides the first detailed examination of the views on consciousness of Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), the famous nineteenth-century Indian monk who introduced Hinduism and Vedānta to the West. First, I present Vivekananda’s metaphysical framework of panentheistic cosmopsychism, according to which the sole reality is Divine Consciousness, which manifests as everything in the universe. As we will see, his panentheistic cosmopsychism combines elements from the classical Indian philosophical traditions of Sāṃkhya and Advaita Vedānta as well as the teachings of his guru Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886). Then I reconstruct his sophisticated arguments in favor of panentheistic cosmopsychism. I argue that Vivekananda’s panentheistic cosmopsychism, in light of its distinctive features and its potential philosophical advantages over rival theories of consciousness, deserves to be taken seriously by contemporary philosophers of mind and religion.
泛神宇宙论:斯瓦米·维韦卡南达的Sāṃkhya-Vedāntic解决意识的难题
本章首次详细考察了斯瓦米·维韦卡南达(1863-1902)关于意识的观点,这位19世纪著名的印度僧人将印度教和Vedānta介绍给了西方。首先,我提出维韦卡南达的形而上学框架的泛有神宇宙论,根据唯一的现实是神圣的意识,体现为宇宙中的一切。正如我们将看到的,他的泛神宇宙论结合了古典印度哲学传统Sāṃkhya和Advaita Vedānta的元素,以及他的上师室利罗摩克里希纳(1836-1886)的教导。然后我重建他的复杂的论点,以支持泛神论的宇宙论。我认为维韦卡南达的泛有神宇宙论,鉴于其独特的特征和相对于其他意识理论的潜在哲学优势,值得当代思想和宗教哲学家认真对待。
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