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This, the first of two volumes of translations by the celebrated Japanese philosopher Nishitani Keiji, contains a collection of 17 essays on general Buddhist thought and Zen, and reflections on the modern world, rounded off by 7 records of interviews and personal reminiscences. Together they give us a portrait of the opening of Japanese philosophy to the wider world and a challenge to its customarily Eurocentric inclinations. The range of Nishitani’s knowledge of Buddhism, Christianity, and the intellectual history of thought from the ancient world down to the present is both astonishing and illuminating.
This second of two volumes of translations by the celebrated Japanese philosopher Nishitani Keiji, comprises contains a collection of 14 essays on philosophy and religion, myth and religion, and the encounter with modern science and technology. 2 pieces on literature and the arts, and 3 dialogues with leading scholars from Japan and abroad round out this picture of an extraordinary mind whose influence, both personal and academic, has helped gain international recognition for traditions of thought long underappreciated in Western philosophical circles.
All’interno della pratica buddhista, la morale è sempre stata considerata un elemento essenziale per il raggiungimento del nirvāna. Tuttavia, da un punto di vista storico, il Buddhismo ha solo occasionalmente offerto una riflessione incentrata sui concetti e sui principi necessari per la fondazione e l’elaborazione di un discorso etico. Il testo affronta alcune questioni di etica sociale e di bioetica mediante un’accurata analisi dell’insegnamento del Buddha e delle tradizioni successive, oltre che delle norme di disciplina monastica inclusi nel Canone Pāli.
The twelfth-century Chinese text Dahui’s Letters is one of the few classical Chinese Chan works that offers practical, concrete advice on the actual practice of meditation and on the mental attitudes necessary for awakening. As such it has provided a source of inspiration and guidance for Chan monastics and laypeople alike throughout the centuries since its publication. Consisting of sixty-two letters by the great Song-dynasty Chan master Dahui Zonggao (1089–1163), the book covers a number of subjects, ranging from Daoist philosophy to sutra translation, but focuses especially on the effective use of koans as an aid to awakening. Dahui’s Letters initiated a shift in the way meditation was practiced throughout the Buddhist nations of East Asia, and remains an influential and much-studied work to the present day. The present translation includes the original Chinese text, a historical introduction, English translations, and extensive notes.
Miki Kiyoshi (1897–1945) is arguably one of the most underappreciated thinkers of the Kyoto School—certainly outside of Japan. This collection examines his life and thought as someone who “continuously wandered in search of his own path.” The first three essays examine his confrontation with Neo-Kantianism, Heidegger, and Marxism. The next four essays focus on his philosophy history, technology, anthropology, and the logic of imagination. The final three essays present Miki’s intellectual journey beyond the confines of the Academy: his work as an editor, journalist, and public intellectual, and the reception of his thought in Korea.
In this collection of essays Joseph S. O'Leary meditates on the varied Irishness of a Modernist Mayo priest, a Dublin transsexual, a flamboyant Dublin playwright coming to grief in London, an exiled Dublin novelist beguiled by Newman's style, an old woman collapsing in Foxrock, and an old man in the dark brooding on shards of his past. "The stone's in the midst of all" in the central chapters, in which a great poet faces the horrors of Civil War from his crumbling Galway tower (and finally greets the peace in a Waterford schoolroom).
The Language of Being and Otherness stages an engagement between Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995), two of the leading figures in twentieth-century European and continental philosophy. As an exposition and critical discussion of their original thinking, it is guided by their respective understanding of language and communication. The author shows how bringing to light their underlying philosophical differences— principally through a detailed analysis of Gadamer’s hermeneutics and Levinas’ reflections on ethics—suggests ways the two philosophers might be brought into closer dialogue.
この本の基本テーゼは、神学がいつもある特定の場所において行われるという自覚である。ある特定の場所の中で行われる神学、言い換えれば、ある特定の場所で自覚され、また書かれる神学は、その場所と場所の間を往復することにより自分の進めるべき道を探るのである。この本に収録されて諸論文は、筆者がいろいろな学術雑誌に掲載していただいたものや、講演を依頼されて作成した原稿を基にしたものである。ここで筆者は、ほかの宗教や自然科学、そして文学との出会いによって作られた場所の中でキリスト教神学はどのような道を歩むことになるのか、そしてまたその結果はどのようなものになりうるのか、という問いへの答えを試みたのである。
The 2023 issue of the EJJP features articles on Tanabe Hajime, Watsuji Tetsurō, and Nishida Kitarō, translations of Tanabe, Kuki Shūzō, Miki Kiyoshi, , and Nakai Masakazu, as well as a French translation of Tanabe’s curriculum vitae.
