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| Theories of Knowledge and the Experience of Being: Jainism's Ontology of Kinship | ||
| 作者 | Anne Vallely |
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| 出處題名 | International Journal of Dharma Studies |
| 卷期 | v.1 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2013.12 |
| 頁次 | 1 - 6 |
| 出版者 | SpringerOpen |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.springeropen.com |
| 出版地 | Heidelberg, Germany [海德堡, 德國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliations:Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada |
| 摘要 | This paper explores Jain epistemology and hermeneutics as derivative of an ontology of kinship or of ‘being with’. The distinctively Jain ‘way of being’ stems from an experiential reality of inhabiting a world that is concretely and patently inhabited by others. Methodologically, the paper draws on Umāswāti’s Tattvārtha Sūtra, as well as on ethnographic work on Jainism. The paper demonstrates that embodied perceptions of an animate cosmos are far more fundamental than any of its individual metaphysical claims for understanding the Jain relation to the world. It is argued that these embodied perceptions constitute the generative ground from which Jain philosophical and ethical reflections emerge. Jainism’s insistence on the concrete experience of being sentiently with others informs its ethical frameworks and epistemological insights, and serves as the foundational source for understanding life’s existential purpose. This paper concludes by arguing that the primary impetus for Jainism’s celebrated focus on nonviolence, as well as its extraordinary attention to the non-human, is not epistemological, but experiential. |
| 目次 | background 1 animate cosmos & the non-human other 2 the meaningfulness of Lokapurusa 3 conclusion 5 endnote 6 competing interest 6 references 6 |
| ISSN | 21968802 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 8 |
| 建檔日期 | 2014.11.04 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.05.11 |
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