The Oneness Hypothesis : : Beyond the Boundary of Self / / ed. by Philip Ivanhoe, Owen Flanagan, Victoria Harrison, Eric Schwitzgebel, Hagop Sarkissian.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Baxter, Donald L . M.,; Blum, Lawrence,; Clark, Stephen R. L.,; Cokelet, Bradford,; Flanagan, Owen,; Garfield, Jay,; Harrison, Victoria S.,; Harrison, Victoria,; Hess, Kendy M.,; Ho, Cho Geung,; Ivanhoe, Philip J.,; Jiang, Tao,; Kittay, Eva Feder,; Nichols, Shaun,; Putilin, Dimitri,; Sarkissian, Hagop,; Schwitzgebel, Eric,; Slater, Michael R.,; Strohminger, Nina,; Swann, William B.,; Talaifar, Sanaz,; Tiwald, Justin,; Unno, Mark,
• TeilnehmendeR: Baxter, Donald L. M.; Blum, Lawrence.; Clark, Stephen R. L.; Cokelet, Bradford.; Garfield, Jay L.; Harrison, Victoria.; Hess, Kendy M.; Ho, Cho Geung.; Jiang, Tao.; Kittay, Eva Feder.; Nichols, Shaun.; Putilin, Dimitri.; Slater, Michael R.; Strohminger, Nina.; Swann, William B.; Talaifar, Sanaz.; Tiwald, Justin.; Unno, Mark.
• HerausgeberIn: Flanagan, Owen,; Harrison, Victoria,; Ivanhoe, Philip,; Sarkissian, Hagop,; Schwitzgebel, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world-the "oneness hypothesis"-can be found in many of the world's philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally conn...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Conventions
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Oneness: A Big History Perspective
• 2. Oneness and Its Discontent: Contesting Ren in Classical Chinese Philosophy
• 3. One Alone and Many
• 4. Oneness, Aspects, and the Neo-Confucians
• 5. One-to-One Fellow Feeling, Universal Identification and Oneness, and Group Solidarities
• 6. The Relationality and the Normativity of An Ethic of Care
• 7. Oneness and Narrativity: A Comparative Case Study
• 8. Kant, Buddhism, and Self-Centered Vice
• 9. Fractured Wholes: Corporate Agents and Their Members
• 10. Religious Faith, Self-Unification, and Human Flourishing in James and Dewey
• 11. The Self and the Ideal Human Being in Eastern and Western Philosophical Traditions: Two Types of "Being a Valuable Person"
• 12. Hallucinating Oneness: Is Oneness True or Just a Positive Metaphysical Illusion?
• 13. Episodic Memory and Oneness
• 14. Confucius and the Superorganism
• 15. Death, Self, and Oneness in the Incomprehensible Zhuangzi
• 16. Identity Fusion: The Union of Personal and Social Selves
• 17. Tribalism and Universalism: Reflections and Scientific Evidence
• 18. Two Notions of Empathy and Oneness
• Contributors
• Index