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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| Acknowledgments |
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| Abbreviations |
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| Editor's Introduction |
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| 1 Buddhist Philosophy as a Way of Life: The Spiritual Exercises of Tsongkhapa |
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| 2 The Other Side of Realism: Panpsychism and Yogacara |
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| 3 Emergentist Naturalism in Early Buddhism and Deweyan Pragmatism |
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| 4 Metaphysical Dependence, East and West |
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| 5 Metaphysics and Metametaphysics with Buddhism: The Lay of the Land |
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| 6 Are Reasons Causally Relevant for Action? Dharmakirti and the Embodied Cognition Paradigm |
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| 7 Zen's Nonegocentric Perspectivism |
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| 8 Rhetoric of Uncertainty in Zen Buddhism and Western Literary Modernism |
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| 9 From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science |
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| 10 Embodying Change: Buddhism and Feminist Philosophy |
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| 11 Buddhist Modernism and Kant on Enlightenment |
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12 Compassion and Rebirth: Some Ethical Implications |
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| Further Reading |
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| Index |
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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).
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