जितेन्द्रनाथ महान्ति

कृतियाँ

• 1966गंगेश का सत्य-सिद्धांत

  नव्य-न्याय के आधार-ग्रंथ गंगेश के तत्त्वचिन्तामणि के सत्य-खंड (प्रामाण्यवाद) का संस्करण, अनुवाद और विश्लेषण, सत्य के आधुनिक सिद्धांतों से उसकी तुलना करने वाली लंबी भूमिका सहित।

• 1992भारतीय चिंतन में तर्क और परंपरा

  शास्त्रीय भारतीय दर्शन में ज्ञानमीमांसा, तर्कशास्त्र और सत्ता-मीमांसा पर निबंध, जो तर्क देता है कि उसके संप्रदाय एक-दूसरे के साथ तर्कसंगत युक्ति में लगते हैं और केवल किसी आध्यात्मिक परंपरा की अभिव्यक्ति नहीं हैं।

मत

Mohanty worked in two fields that he saw as connected. In phenomenology he defended Husserl’s theory of meaning: meanings are ideal entities, not psychological events, and consciousness is intentional, directed towards objects through such meanings. In “Husserl and Frege” (1982) he argued that Husserl had arrived at the distinction between sense and reference and at his critique of psychologism independently of Frege, against the view that Frege’s review of 1894 converted him. In Indian philosophy he took the Nyaya school seriously as a theory of knowledge: his study of Gangesha examined the debate over whether the truth of a cognition is known intrinsically or only through further cognitions, and showed its relevance to modern theories of truth. In “Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought” (1992) he argued that classical Indian philosophy is a tradition of rational argument; the goal of liberation is a value it serves, but it does not determine the validity of its arguments. He also compared the transcendental subject of phenomenology with Indian conceptions of consciousness and the self, without reducing one to the other.

जीवन और संदर्भ

Jitendra Nath Mohanty was born on 26 September 1928 in Cuttack, Odisha. He studied philosophy at Presidency College and the University of Calcutta, and alongside his university studies he learned Navya-Nyaya, the “new logic” of classical Indian philosophy, with a traditional pandit. He then went to Göttingen, where he took his doctorate in 1954. He taught at the University of Calcutta and at the University of Burdwan and in 1970 moved to the United States, first to the University of Oklahoma, later to the New School for Social Research in New York and to Temple University in Philadelphia, where he taught for many years. He was a leading voice in Husserl scholarship and in comparative philosophy. In his autobiography “Between Two Worlds: East and West” (2002) he described his life between the Indian and the European traditions. He died on 7 September 2023.

अन्य प्रमुख कृतियाँ

• Edmund Husserl’s Theory of Meaning (1964)
• Gaṅgeśa’s Theory of Truth (1966)
• Husserl and Frege (1982)
• Transcendental Phenomenology: An Analytic Account (1989)
• Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought (1992)
• Classical Indian Philosophy (2000)
• The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical Development (2008)