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- W89771161 abstract "One common interpretation of the orthodox Indian prohibition on desire is that it is a prohibition on phenomenologically salient desires. The Ny?yas?tra and Brahmasiddhi seem to support this view. I argue that this interpretation is mistaken. The Ved?ntins draw a distinction between counting some fact as a reason for acting {icch?) and counting one's desire (r?ga) as a reason for acting, and prohibit the latter. The Naiy?yikas draw a distinction between desiring to avoid some state of affairs {dvesa) and believing that some state of affairs is unimportant {yair?gya), and advocate the latter. Both deny that the state to which the English word 'desire' refers is a necessary condition of acting. Scholars of orthodox Indian philosophy widely agree about how to rec? oncile the seemingly contradictory claims that (a) desire is required for action; and (b) desire is an obstacle to moksa (liberation). It couldn't be that all actions further bind the agent to sams?ra. So it must be that only some desires are pro? hibited and others are permitted. There is much less agreement about which desires are prohibited and permitted. One common view is that desires that are phenomenologically salient are prohibited, and desires that lack phenomeno? logical saliency are permitted. The theories of motivation in the Ny?yas?tra and Brahmasiddhi seem to support this interpretation. My thesis is that the prohibition on desire in the Ny?yas?tra and Brahmasiddhi is much broader than this. The texts prohibit any desire that so much as disposes the agent to phenomenological sensations, and this means that they prohibit all of those mental states to which we normally use the word ' desire ' to refer. So contrary to the common view, all desire is an obstacle to moksa, and desire is not required for action. While both texts advocate eliminating desire and acting for other reasons, the details of their theories of motivation diverge in ways that have not been clearly understood. In each case, the authors draw a distinction that their opponent fails to notice, and these distinctions are critical to understanding the prescriptions for achieving moksa." @default.
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- W89771161 title "Motivation in the Nyayasutra and Brahmasiddhi" @default.
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