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| The Great Awakening of Life: an Existential Phenomenological Interpretation of the Mahat-Buddhi in the Sāṃkhya Kārikā | ||
| 作者 | Ashton, Geoffrey (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Dharma Studies: Asian and Transcultural Religion, Philosophy, & Ethics |
| 卷期 | v.1 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2018.10 |
| 頁次 | 97 - 109 |
| 出版者 | Springer |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.springer.com/gp |
| 出版地 | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Authors and Affiliations: University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 關鍵詞 | Sāṃkhya Kārikā; Buddhi; Mahat; Existential Phenomenology; Lived Reality |
| 摘要 | The Sāṃkhya Kārikā’s “mahat-buddhi” appears to be riddled with obscurity. Standard realist interpreters struggle to explain its cumbersome, textually unsupported bivalence, namely, how the mahat-buddhi can represent both a cosmological entity and a psychological capacity. Idealist readings, meanwhile, neglect the historically deep ontological meaning of this tattva by reducing it to a power of the transcendental ego. This paper moves beyond the impasse of the realism-idealism framework for interpreting the Sāṃkhya Kārikā and examines the mahat-buddhi through the existential phenomenology of José Ortega y Gasset. It begins by re-framing classical Sāṃkhya metaphysics as an existential phenomenology of life, whereby life—as lived reality, not an external physical world or a field of mental experience—conveys the meaning of vyaktaprakṛti. From this, the paper then argues that the mahat-buddhi represents “the great awakening of life,” which is characterized by 5 key features: (1) purposive procreativity; (2) a power of illuminating discernment; (3) a principle of disclosure; (4) an existentially unitary, concentrated vitality; and (5) a capacity to take other-beings-as. |
| ISSN | 25220926 (P); 25220934 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-018-0010-8 |
| 點閱次數 | 62 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.08.16 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.08.16 |
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