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| Author(s) : Odin, Steve |
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| ISBN : 0791424928 | | EAN : 9780791424926 | | Cover : Paperback | | Pages : 384 | | Size : 230 x 150mm | | Publisher : State Univ New York | | Published : 1995 |
Category : Philosophy
Category 2 : Zen: General
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Synopsis:
The author's thesis is that in both modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism there has been a paradigm shift from a monological concept of self as an isolated "I" to a dialogical concept of the social self as an "I-Thou relation", including a communication model of self as an individual-society interaction. It is also shown that for both traditions all aesthetic, moral, and religious values are a function of the social self arising through communicative interaction between the individual and society. However, at the same time this work critically examines major idealogical conflicts arising between the social self theories of modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism with respect to such problems as individualism versus collectivism, freedom versus determinism, liberalism versus communitarianism, and relativism versus objectivism.
"This is first-rate inercultural philosophy." David Ray Griffin.
"Odin makes an impressive case for the claim that the Chicago School pragmatism of George Herbert Mead provides the most adequate version of the social turn in Western philosophy and thereby the best basis for understanding the self of modern Japanese Buddhist thought, especially Zen, which has undergone its own social turn. |
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