Nothingness and Desire : : A Philosophical Antiphony / / James W. Heisig; ed. by Paul L. Swanson.
The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the qu...
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Heisig, James W., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Nothingness and Desire : A Philosophical Antiphony / James W. Heisig; ed. by Paul L. Swanson. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (210 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture ; 23 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Nothingness and Desire -- Self and No-Self -- God -- Morality -- Property -- The East-West Divide -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the questions of self, God, morality, property, and the East-West philosophical divide.Rather than attempt to harmonize East and West philosophies into a single chorus, Heisig undertakes what he calls a "philosophical antiphony." Through the simple call-and-response of a few representative voices, Heisig tries to join the choir on both sides of the antiphony to relate the questions at hand to larger problems that press on the human community. He argues that as problems like the technological devastation of the natural world, the shrinking of elected governance through the expanding powers of financial institutions, and the expropriation of alternate cultures of health and education spread freely through traditional civilizations across the world, religious and philosophical responses can no longer afford to remain territorial in outlook. Although the lectures often stress the importance of practice, their principal preoccupation is with seeing the things of life more clearly. Heisig explains: "By that I mean not just looking more closely at objects that come into my line of view from day to day, but seeing them as mirrors in which I can see myself reflected. Things do not just reveal parts of the world to me; they also tell me something of how I see what I see, and who it is that does the seeing. To listen to what things have to say to me, I need to break with the habit of thinking simply that it is I who mirror inside of myself the world outside and process what I have captured to make my way through life. Only when this habit has been broken will I be able to start seeing through the reflections, to scrape the tain off the mirror, as it were, so that it becomes a window to the things of life as they are, with only a pale reflection of myself left on the pane. Everything seen through the looking glass, myself included, becomes an image on which reality has stamped itself. This, I am persuaded, is the closest we can come to a ground for thinking reasonably and acting as true-to-life as we can." Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) PHILOSOPHY / General. bisacsh Swanson, Paul L., editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110564143 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663259 print 9780824838850 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824839567 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824839567 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824839567/original |
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