The Center for Comparative Philosophy & University Library
出版地
California, US [加利福尼亞州, 美國]
資料類型
期刊論文=Journal Article
使用語言
英文=English
附註項
Author Affiliation: Arizona State University, USA.
關鍵詞
discourse; Gelassenheit; Heidegger; thought; Uichyama; Zen Buddhism
摘要
This paper presents how the Sōtō Zen priest, Kōshō Uchiyama, and the mercurial and polarizing German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, approach what the former calls “opening the hand of thought” (omoi no te banashi). For Uchiyama, the metaphoric opening of our mental hand requires the meditative practice of zazen or “just sitting” (shikantaza) and is said to mean that we avoid the act of thinking. Conversely, Heidegger maintains that the “releasement” (Gelassenheit) of our conceptual grasp is the basis of a more essential and “meditative” mode of thinking and discourse (besinnliches Denken). While Uchiyama and Heidegger appear to be at odds, their approaches are in fact compatible. By engaging in a cross-tradition examination of these two thinkers, I provide an original contribution about how both Uchiyama and Heidegger view opening the hand of thought as the critical step toward a more attuned and compassionate mode of thinking and discourse.
目次
ABSTRACT 1 Keywords 1 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. UCHIYAMA AND THE CONCEPTUAL GRASP 2 3. SITTING ZAZEN 5 4. HEIDEGGER AND THE CONCEPTUAL GRASP 6 5. THE LOGOS AND MOVING-INTO-NEARNESS 7 6. OPENHANDED THINKING AND DISCOURSE 10 7. HEIDEGGER’S MISTAKE 13 8. CONCLUSION: UCHIYAMA AND HEIDEGGER’S COMPATIBILITY 15 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 16 REFERENCES 16
