Argument (Dec 2012)
Doświadczenie poznania unicestwiającego w myśli adwajtystycznej
Abstract
The well-known anecdote about Śaṅkara fleeing from a charging bull indicates the existenceof some kind of reality and inherent logic in the empirical world. It also implies a hierarchy ofreality as far as the existence rooted in avidyā is concerned. The article gives an account of twodivergent opinions on such a hierarchy in advaita philosophy, each advocated by an eminentscholar – E. Deutsch and P. Hacker. Unquestionably, the hierarchy concerns exclusively thesuperimposed reality. From the point of view of the vidyā all the levels of the phenomenal existenceare no longer valid. The cognition of the ultimate reality is called ‘sublation’ by Deutschand ‘contradiction’ by Hacker. The present article includes a suggestion of a new, presumablymore adequate term – ‘the annihilating cognition’, since the cognition of the ultimate realityinevitably involves the certainty of the non existence and the illusory nature of the phenomenalworld.
