Abstract
Several seemingly in-congruent ingredients are involved in this paper on pragmatic metaphysics: First a Western relatively recent attempt to restore metaphysics, second a Tamil philosophy connected to Śaiva worship, and third the nature of language which didn’t really play a central role in ŚaivaSiddhānta as opposed to the classical philosophical systems of Nyāya or Mīmāṁsā. The jump from a modern Western ‘Heideggerian’ interpretation is indeed far, but is much needed if the dynamics of the kind of being which are us, in the view of post-classical Tamil ŚaivaSiddhānta, is to be accentuated and put forward in a cross-cultural context. The central concept is that of openness, which expresses an existential interpretation of the text of Śivajňānabodha—a central philosophical text of Śaiva Siddhānta.
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Stamm, M. (2021). ‘Pragmatic Metaphysics: Language as a Battlefield Between Truth and Darkness’: An Interpretive Approach to the View on Language, Truth and World in the Philosophy of Śaiva Siddhānta—In the Light of Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’. In: Giri, A.K. (eds) Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7114-5_11
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