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| False Friends: Dependent Origination and the Perils of Analogy in Cross-Cultural Philosophy | ||
| 作者 | Meyers, Karin |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| 卷期 | v.25 |
| 出版日期 | 2018 |
| 頁次 | 785 - 818 |
| 出版者 | Department of History & Religious Studies Program , The Pennsylvania State University |
| 出版者網址 | https://history.la.psu.edu/ |
| 出版地 | University Park, PA, US |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1. Author affiliation: Centre for Buddhist Studies, Kathmandu University 2. Special Issue: Buddhism and Free Will |
| 摘要 | Cross-cultural philosophical inquiry is predicated on the possibility of drawing analogies between ideas from distinct historical and cultural traditions, but is distorted and constrained when those analogies are overdrawn. In considering what Buddhists might have to say about free will, scholars tend to draw analogies between dependent origination and distinctively modern naturalistic ideas of universal causation. Such analogies help promote the idea of Buddhism as a “scientific religion” and help justify the impulse to naturalize Buddhism (or to simply ignore its un- or super-natural elements) in order to make it a more credible conversation partner. By tracing some of the early history of the idea of dependent origination, this essay discusses how and why these analogies have been overdrawn. It addresses why this matters to the inquiry into free will and other cross-cultural philosophical engagements with Buddhism. With respect to naturalizing Buddhism, it argues that decisions about what to exclude from serious consideration (such as karma and rebirth) necessarily influence how we understand ideas (such as dependent origination) we deem more congenial (and thus essential), and that by excluding those we do not find congenial, we foreclose opportunities to submit our own philosophical assumptions to scrutiny and to be genuinely transformed by our encounter with Buddhism. |
| 目次 | Introduction 786 A Buddhist Theory of Free Will? 787 Dependent Origination as Universal Causation 798 Conclusion: Does it Matter? 810 Works Cited 814 |
| ISSN | 10769005 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 260 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.03.01 |
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