Buddhism and American thinkers
By: edited by Kenneth K. Inada & Nolan P. Jacobson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780585075266
Subjects: Buddhist philosophy; American Philosophy; Comparative Philosophy; Buddhism; Doctrines; Philosophie bouddhique; Philosophie américaine; Philosophie comparée; Bouddhisme; PHILOSOPHY; Buddhist; Buddhismus; Buddhistische Philosophie; Aufsatzsammlung
Description: These essays by leading scholars explore Buddhist influences on the currents of American thought and show how Buddhism has made ever-deepening penetrations into the very substratum of American thinking. Each of the contributors relates Buddhism to a factor in American thinking, exploring the new ways in which Buddhist perspectives on personal identity, human suffering and alienation, the nature of compassionate love and social nature of ultimate reality amplify and clarify perspectives found in the golden age of American philosophy. The similarities are evident in the thoughts of William James, Josiah Royce, Alfred North Whitehead, John Dewey, Charles Sanders Peirce and Charles Hartshorne. ISBN 0-87395-754-7 (pbk.) : $9.95.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: The Buddhist-American encounter in philosophy --; title: Toward a Buddhist-Christian religion  -- Charles Hartshorne; title: The width of civilized experiences  -- David L. Hall; title: A Buddhist analysis of human experience  -- Nolan P. Jacobson; title: Mahāyāna enlightenment in process perspective  -- Jay McDaniel; title: The American involvement with Śūnyatā: prospects  -- Kenneth K. Inada; title: Buddhism and Wieman on suffering and joy  -- David Lee Miller; title: Buddhist logic and Western thought  -- Richard S.Y. Chi; title: Buddhism and process philosophy  -- Robert C. Neville; title: Interrelational existence -- Hajime Nakamura.