Encounters of Mind
Luminosity and Personhood in Indian and Chinese Thought
1st Edition
Published on 23. February 2015
262 pages
978-1-4384-5475-7 (ISBN)
Description
Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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978-1-4384-5475-7 (9781438454757)
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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.
Content
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
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
