Antoine Panaioti

Nietzsche and Buddhist Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Nietzsche once proclaimed himself the 'Buddha of Europe', and throughout his life Buddhism held enormous interest for him. While he followed Buddhist thinking in demolishing what he regarded as the two-headed delusion of Being and Self, he saw himself as advocating a response to the ensuing nihilist crisis that was diametrically opposed to that of his Indian counterpart. In this book Antoine Panaioti explores the deep and complex relations between Nietzsche's views and Buddhist philosophy. He discusses the psychological models and theories which underlie their supposedly opposing ethics of 'great health' and explodes the apparent dichotomy between Nietzsche's Dionysian life-affirmation and Buddhist life-negation, arguing for a novel, hybrid response to the challenge of formulating a tenable post-nihilist ethics. His book will interest students and scholars of Nietzsche's philosophy, Buddhist thought and the metaphysical, existential and ethical issues that emerge with the demise of theism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139854450
• Artikelnr.: 53062953

Autorenporträt

Antoine Panaïoti is lecturer in philosophy and post-doctoral fellow at the Centre of Research in Ethics at the University of Montreal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Nihilism and Buddhism: 1. Nietzsche as Buddha
2. Nietzsche as anti-Buddha
Part II. Suffering: 3. Amor Fati and the affirmation of suffering
4. Nirv¿na and the cessation of suffering
Part III. Compassion: 5. Overcoming compassion
6. Cultivating compassion
Conclusion: toward a new response to the challenge of nihilism.