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omnicentrism, intersubjectivity and value paradox in Tiantai Buddhist thought

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Evil and/or/as the good: omnicentrism, intersubjectivity and value paradox in Tiantai Buddhist thought
2000, Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Distributed by Harvard University Press
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: I Introduction: The Question
The Problem of Antithetical Values 2/ A Value-Free Universe? i8/
Antinomianism? 20
2 Value, Intersubjectivity, and Holism: Philosophical Parameters
and the Chinese Background
Part I: Holism-Definitions and Distinctions 27
The Center 3o/ Intersubjectivity and Chinese Holisms 41/
Object as Focus and Field 50/ Implications of Unicentrism,
Oligocentrism, and Omnicentrism 55
Part II: Value 68
Speculative Ground for a General Theory of Value Paradox 69/
Inverted Pyramid of Instrumental and Ultimate Values 78/
Paradox in Chinese Rhetoric 85/ Applications of Holism in
Early Chinese Thought and Their Axiological Consequences 95
3 Value and Anti-value in Indian Buddhism
4 Tiantai Basics: Omnicentric Holism
Part I: The Basics 114
The Four Teachings and the Three Truths 114/ The Three Tracks 135/
The Ten Thusnesses 137/ The Ten Realms 138/ The Transcendental
Marvels, Relative and Absolute 140/ Opening the Provisional to Reveal
the Real (Transformative Recontextualization) 145/ The Three
Thousand Quiddites Inherently Entailed in Each Moment of
Experience / Inherent Entailment 159
Part II: Transitional Historical Considerations of Later Tiantai 170
The Huayan School and "Nature-Origination" 170/ The Suratigama
Sutra and the "Pure Mind" of Early Chan 176/ Zhanran's Reassertion
of Tiantai 186/ Toward the Shanjia/Shanwai Schism 195
5 Intersubjectivity in the Tiantai Tradition as Understood by Zhili I99
Self-praxis as Identical to the Teaching and Transformation of
Others 201/ Stimulus and Response (Ganying) 203/ The
Pervasiveness of the Intersubjective 208/ The Ultimacy of
Intersubjectivity as a Focus of the Shanjia/Shanwai Debate 218
6 Value and Anti-value in Tiantai Thought 240
Part I: Good and Evil in Zhiyi and Zhanran 240
Value-Paradoxical Consequences of Tiantai Upiya Theory 241/
The Moral Benefits of Inherent Evil and Zhiyi's Critique of Anti-
nomianism 251/ Zhanran on Inherent Evil and Practiced Good 261
Part II: Zhili's Concept of Value Paradox 270
The Intersubjective Underpinning of Ineradicable and All-pervading
Evil as Identical with the Good 272/ The Ultimacy of the Dung
Beetle 295/ Comparison to Zhiyi and Zhanran 306/ Comparison
to the Shanwai 312/ Objections and Responses 323/ Zhili's
Practice of Evil 329
7 What's So Good About Evil: Conclusions and Implications 344
Metaphysical Implications 351/ Episremological Implications 358/
Ethical Motivations and Implications 361
Notes 387
Bibliography 455
Glossary 465
Index 471.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-464) and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Series
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;, 51

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
294.3/42042
Library of Congress
BQ9118.4 .Z56 2000, BQ9118.4.Z56 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 482 p. ;
Number of pages
482

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6778706M
ISBN 10
0674002482
LCCN
00022030
OCLC/WorldCat
43441500
Goodreads
338425

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