Berger Encounters of Mind

Luminosity and Personhood in Indian and Chinese Thought
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5475-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Douglas L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Heart and Person: Early Chinese Thought

The Conscious Body
The Heart: Keeping Tallies and Moral Feelings
Personal Cultivation and Sociality
When Spirit Dethrones the Heart

2. Two Brahminical Selves

The Unconscious Body
Affects, Habits, and New Bodies
Time, Identity, and the Abode of Memory
Selves as Persons in Brahminical Thought

3. Eliminating Identity and the Luminous Mind in Yogacara

Bodily-Cognitive Interdependence
“Self” as a Reification of Habits
Stored-Up Awakening and the Luminous Mind

4. Mind, Nature, and Conduct: Two Approaches of Chinese Buddhism

Origin, Nature, and Causality
Making Our Nature Our Aim
Lumps of Flesh with Bright Minds
Guests, Hosts, and Trust in Oneself

5. A Space for Moral Reflection: The Confucian Rapprochement

Mind as Matter and Sense
Coherence and Unity in Feeling
Varieties of Learning for Oneself

6. Luminosity, Potential, and Personhood

Luminosity: Making the World Manifest
The Body, Nature, and Potentiality
The Provocation of Optimism

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas L. Berger is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of "The Veil of Maya": Schopenhauer's System and Early Indian Thought and numerous essays on both Indian and Chinese philosophy.