Buddhist Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

A Comparative Approach
Redaktion: Emmanuel, Steven M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Buddhist Philosophy: A Comparative Approach presents a series of readings that examine the prominent thinkers and texts of the Buddhist tradition in the round, introducing contemporary readers to major theories and debates at the intersection of Buddhist and Western thought. * Takes a comparative, rather than oppositional, approach to Buddhist philosophy, exploring key theories and debates at the intersection of Eastern and Western thought * Addresses a variety of topics that represent important points of convergence between the Buddhist and Western philosophical traditions * Features contributions from a wide array of acclaimed international scholars in the discipline * Provides a much-needed cross-cultural treatment of Buddhist philosophy appropriate for undergraduate students and specialists alike

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119068402
• Artikelnr.: 52557065

Autorenporträt

STEVEN M. EMMANUEL is Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College, USA. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Concept of Revelation (1995) and editor of A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), The Blackwell Guide to the Modern Philosophers: From Descartes to Nietzsche (Wiley Blackwell, 2001), and Modern Philosophy: An Anthology (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Editor's Introduction 1 Steven M. Emmanuel 1 Buddhist Philosophy as a Way of Life: The Spiritual Exercises of Tsongkhapa 11 Christopher W. Gowans 2 The Other Side of Realism: Panpsychism and Yog
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¡ra 29 Douglas Duckworth 3 Emergentist Naturalism in Early Buddhism and Deweyan Pragmatism 45 John J. Holder 4 Metaphysical Dependence, East and West 63 Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest 5 Metaphysics and Metametaphysics with Buddhism: The Lay of the Land 87 Tom J.F. Tillemans 6 Are Reasons Causally Relevant for Action? Dharmak
(c)rti and the Embodied Cognition Paradigm 109 Christian Coseru 7 Zen's Nonegocentric Perspectivism 123 Bret W. Davis 8 Rhetoric of Uncertainty in Zen Buddhism and Western Literary Modernism 145 Steven Heine 9 From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a Cross(c)\Cultural Cognitive Science 165 Jake H. Davis and Evan Thompson 10 Embodying Change: Buddhism and Feminist Philosophy 189 Erin A. McCarthy 11 Buddhist Modernism and Kant on Enlightenment 205 David Cummiskey 12 Compassion and Rebirth: Some Ethical Implications 221 John Powers Further Reading 239 Index 243