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The Collected Essays of Bimal Krishna Matilal, vol. 2: Ethics and Epics. Edited by JONARDON GANERI. New Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. vii + 445. Rs. $75.
This is the second of a two-volume collection of Binial Krishna Matilal's papers edited by Jonardon Ganeri. The first volume. Mind. Language and World, was devoted to Matilal's considerable body of works dealing with philosophy, logic, and epistemology. The companion volume reviewed here, although called Ethics and Epics, deals with a sundry list of topics and can best be viewed as "miscellaneous," save for the fact that all the essays contain material relating to ethics or the epics.
Within the compass of this brief review it is impossible to present in any detail the twenty-nine papers included in this volume. They range from essays on Ramakrsna, to explorations of rationality and dharma, to peace and inter-faith studies, to karma and salvation. Matilal brings his usual acumen and insight into...