ISBN: 9788124604090 - voice of senses: traditional thought and modern science (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. vii + 238.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Introduction/Baidyanath Saraswati. I. Philosophy and religion 1. Tagore's congregational addresses on seeing and hearing/Sitansu Ray. 2. The Senses/Uma Marina Vesci. 3. The five senses theory Indian approach/Niradbaran Mandal Kavyatarkatirtha. 4. Human sense organs as described in the Buddhist Abhidharma/S.K. Pathak. 5. Senses in Jainism/Bashistha Narayan Sinha. 6. Senses and human understanding/B.D. Tripathi. 7. Human senses and their purpose/K.N. Sahay. 8. Function of sense organs in aesthetic perception/Kalpika Mukherjee. 9. Conceptual understanding of Five agents (senses) in Chinese/Arttatrana Nayak. 10. Sensitivity of Japan/Hikotaro Furuta. 11. Dual nature of senses Islamic view/A.S. Inam Shastri. 12. Christian understanding of five senses/D.M. Solomon. II. Science and society 13. Santal perception of organs and the senses/Onkar Prasad. 14. Function of the sense organs in the snake catching technology/Sanghamitra Pal. 15. Animal behaviour during natural disaster and their role for the welfare of mankind/Saroj Kr. Pyne and Gautam Samanta.16. Plant response to external stimuli/Somasish Ghosh Dastidar and Manojit Debnath. 17. Bioinformatics of perception/S.N. Ojha. 18. Modern technology to imitate five senses/Ajeya Jha and H.K.D. Sarma. 19. Socio cultural construction of senses and post modern society/Umesh K. Singh. 20. The five senses theory/Henrik Janne. The contributors. Index. This volume is devoted to a thorough understanding of the concept of senses as it has been interpreted in the ancient Asian traditions with particular reference to Indian religious and philosophical thought. It examines the functions of the sense organs and the perception of them adopting a sociological and scientific approach. The first part of the presentation comments on the recurring cycle of five senses in Chinese Tibetan and Indian philosophy. It takes up ancient knowledge on the senses as can be gained form the Vedas and the Upanisads the Buddhist Abhidharma text and Jainism as also from Islamic and Christian philosophies. They relate functioning of the sense organs to aesthetic perception. Articles in the second part examine ethnic cultural communities responses to sense and attribution of functions to them as for instance the importance attached to the senses by the traditional snake charmers. They study responses by plant and animal life to their environment and inquire into the biological processes involved in sense perceptions. Modern technology is discussed as imitating the five senses. These articles should be of benefit to scholars interested in learning about the different aspect of Indian religious and philosophical perceptions. 238 pp.…