Rafal K. Stepien

Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Nagarjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

N?g?rjuna (c. 150-250), founder of the Madhyamaka or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy and the most influential of all Buddhist thinkers aside from the Buddha himself, concludes his masterpiece, Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, with these baffling verses: For the abandonment of all views He taught the true teaching By means of compassion I salute him, Gautama But how could anyone possibly abandon all views? In Buddhism between Religion and Philosophy, Rafal K. Stepien shows not only how N?g?rjuna's radical teaching of no-view or ?abelief? makes sense within his Buddhist philosophy, but also how it stands at the summit of his religious mission to care for all living beings. Rather than treating any one aspect of N?g?rjuna's ideas in isolation, here his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics emerge as a single coherent and convincing philosophical-religious system of thought and practice. Grounded in meticulous study of original texts from classical India and China but innovating on the theories and methods underpinning contemporary scholarship East and West, this study shows how profoundly important voices from the diverse religious and philosophical traditions of the world have until now been diminished, distorted, and silenced. In opening up truly global horizons of existing and co-existing in the world, this work challenges the very ways in which we think about religion and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197771327
• Artikelnr.: 70915680

Autorenporträt

Rafal K. Stepien is Research Associate and European Research Council Principal Investigator within the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, and his publications include Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature. He has held the inaugural Berggruen Research Fellowship in Indian Philosophy at Oxford, the inaugural Cihui Foundation Faculty Fellowship in Chinese Buddhism at Columbia, an Exchange Scholarship in the Study of Religion at Harvard, and a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Buddhist Studies at Heidelberg University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments * Introduction: Emptiness Between the Lines: Reading Buddhist Philosophy of/and/as Religion * 0.0. The Dream is Over * 0.1. N
g
rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness * 0.2. Believing Between the Lines * 0.3. Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy * 0.4. Contexts and Texts * Chapter 1: Orienting Reason: A Religious Critique of Philosophizing N
g
rjuna * 1.1. The Unimaginative Question * 1.2. Unveiling the East * 1.3. Orientalizing Reasons * 1.4. Reimagining Religion and Philosophy * Chapter 2: Logical, Buddhological, Buddhist: A Critical Study of the Tetralemma * 2.1. Matters and Methods * 2.2. The Logical Tetralemma * 2.3. The Buddhological Tetralemma * 2.4. The Buddhist Tetralemma * Chapter 3: N
g
rjuna's Tetralemma: Tetr
letheia and Tath
gata, Utterance and Anontology * 3.1 The Dilemma of the Tetralemma * 3.2 The Exhaustive Tetralemma * 3.3 Tetralemma as Tetr
letheia * 3.4 Tetr
letheia as Tath
gata * 3.5 Utterance and Anontology * 3.6 Tetralemma and No-Teaching * 3.7 Silencing Nothing * Chapter 4: Abandoning All Views: A Buddhist Critique of Belief * 4.1. Views on Abandoning Views * 4.2. N
g
rjuna's Abandoning Views * 4.3. Abandoning N
g
rjuna's Views * Chapter 5: All-Embracing Emptiness: N
g
rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness * 5.1. The Abandonment of Ethics? * 5.2. The Ethics of Abandonment * 5.3. From Ethics to Eirenics * 5.4. Abandoning All, Embracing All * Bibliography * Index