Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism write by Youru Wang. This book was released on 2003-12-08. Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the first systematic attempt to probe the linguistic strategies of Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism, this book investigates three areas: deconstructive strategy, liminology of language, and indirect communication. It bases these investigations on the critical examination of original texts, placing them strictly within soteriological contexts. Whilst focusing on language use, the study also reveals some important truths about these two traditions and challenges many conventional understandings of them. Responding to recent critiques of Daoist and Chan Buddhist thought, it brings these two traditions into a constructive dialogue with contemporary philosophical reflection. It discovers Zhuangzian and Chan perspectives and sheds light on issues such as the relationship between philosophy and non-philosophy, de-reification of words, relativising the limit of language, structure of indirect communication, and use of paradox, tautology and poetic language.
Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy
Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy write by Youru Wang. This book was released on 2019-01-31. Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Too often Buddhism has been subjected to the Procrustean box of western thought, whereby it is stretched to fit fixed categories or had essential aspects lopped off to accommodate vastly different cultural norms and aims. After several generations of scholarly discussion in English-speaking communities, it is time to move to the next hermeneutical stage. Buddhist philosophy must be liberated from the confines of a quasi-religious stereotype and judged on its own merits. Hence this work will approach Chinese Buddhism as a philosophical tradition in its own right, not as an historical after-thought nor as an occasion for comparative discussions that assume the west alone sets the standards for or is the origin of philosophy and its methodologies. Viewed within their own context, Chinese Buddhist philosophers have much to contribute to a wide range of philosophical concerns, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion, even though Western divisions of philosophy may not exhaust the rich contents of Chinese Buddhist philosophy. .
Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored
Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored write by Jennifer R. Rapp. This book was released on 2014-03-03. Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rapp begins with a question posed by the poet Theodore Roethke: “Should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?” Through her examination of Plato’s Phaedrus and her insights about the place of forgetting in a life, Rapp answers Roethke’s query with a resounding Yes. In so doing, Rapp reimagines the Phaedrus, interprets anew Plato’s relevance to contemporary life, and offers an innovative account of forgetting as a fertile fragility constitutive of humanity. Drawing upon poetry and comparisons with other ancient Greek and Daoist texts, Rapp brings to light overlooked features of the Phaedrus, disrupts longstanding interpretations of Plato as the facile champion of memory, and offers new lines of sight onto (and from) his corpus. Her attention to the Phaedrus and her meditative apprehension of the permeable character of human life leave our understanding of both Plato and forgetting inescapably altered. Unsettle everything you think you know about Plato, suspend the twentieth-century entreaty to “Never forget,” and behold here a new mode of critical reflection in which textual study and humanistic inquiry commingle to expansive effect.
Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion write by Timothy D. Knepper. This book was released on 2017-11-24. Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays is an exercise in comparative philosophy of religion that explores the different ways in which humans express the inexpressible. It brings together scholars of over a dozen religious, literary, and artistic traditions, as part of The Comparison Project's 2013-15 lecture and dialogue series on "religion beyond words." Specialist scholars first detailed the grammars of ineffability in nine different religious traditions as well as the adjacent fields of literature, poetry, music, and art. The Comparison Project's directors then compared this diverse set of phenomena, offering explanations for their patterning, and raising philosophical questions of truth and value about religious ineffability in comparative perspective. This book is the inaugural publication of The Comparison Project, an innovative new approach to the philosophy of religion housed at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa, USA). The Comparison Project organizes a biennial series of scholar lectures, practitioner dialogues, and comparative panels about core, cross-cultural topics in the philosophy of religion. Specialist scholars of religion first explore this topic in their religions of expertise; comparativist philosophers of religion then raise questions of meaning, truth, and value about this topic in comparative perspective. The Comparison Project stands apart from traditional approaches to the philosophy of religion in its commitment to religious inclusivity. It is the future of the philosophy of religion in a diverse, global world.
Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics
Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics write by John Z. Ming Chen. This book was released on 2015-10-09. Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of particular interest are the authors’ refreshing insights into such holistic and topical issues as the globalization of concepts of the Dao, the Yin/Yang, the Heaven-Earth-Humanity triad, the Four Greats, Five Phases, Non-action and so on, as expressed in Canadian literature and criticism – which produces Canadian-constructed Daoist poetics, ethics and aesthetics. Readers will come to understand and appreciate the social and ecological significance of, formal innovations, moral sensitivity, aesthetic principles and ideological complexity in Canadian-Daoist works.
