Situating the Elusive Self of Advaita Vedānta1
Oxford University Press eBooks December 1, 2010 Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2 citations
This chapter looks at the way Advaita Vedānta both affirms a unified consciousness (which might be called a self), and rejects the intuition that ‘I’ picks out that self. Its position is situated cross-culturally through relating it to two contemporary and seemingly opposed positions. On one hand there is Zahavi's theory of a minimal self that, while being only a phenomenological core,...