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| Text and Context in Religious Studies and Yogācāra Cognitive Theory: Discovering Theory “in the Wild” | ||
| 作者 | Waldron, William S. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Numen: International Review for the History of Religions |
| 卷期 | v.61 n.2-3 Spring |
| 出版日期 | 2014.03 |
| 頁次 | 208 - 220 |
| 出版者 | Brill |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.brill.com/ |
| 出版地 | Leiden, the Netherlands [萊登, 荷蘭] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | textual analysis; study of religion; Buddhist theories of mind; Yogācāra Buddhism; reification of identity |
| 摘要 | This paper discusses the creative dynamic between abstraction, reification, and reflexivity in the study of religion in general and textual analysis and Indian Buddhist thought in particular. I define “texts” narrowly, as written materials signifying human speech, something doubly removed from sensory experience, inviting abstraction and reification, while enabling reflexive analysis. Such analyses accumulate in literate civilizations — alienating yet enabling us. For example, the critical methods of Biblical analysis ironically undermined its own ahistorical assumptions, e.g., the idea of an Urtext independent of historical context. Philosophy of science displays similar developments: abstract theories enable analyses of data, which are, however, only meaningful within specific contexts of interpretation. Indian Buddhist philosophy similarly critiques ordinary assumptions about identity, subserved by our innate tendencies to abstract and reify experience, while recognizing its analytic insights. Its own accumulating traditions led Buddhist thinkers to critique multiple theories of cognition, concluding that, like an Urtext, the notion of an independent Self is an abstract social and especially linguistic construct that, nevertheless, operates at the deepest levels of our common cognitive processes — an insight that depended on textual traditions to develop. |
| ISSN | 00295973 (P); 15685276 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341316 |
| 點閱次數 | 123 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.07.18 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.07.18 |
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