Eric S. Nelson’s Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom masterfully interweaves the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and classical Daoism, offering an intricate examination of their ...treatment of key concepts such as things, nothingness, and freedom. The book explores the nuanced variations and transformative interpretations of these central ideas, illuminating their profound impact on both Western and East Asian philosophical traditions. Both Asian and Western academics have long sought a book that offers a coherent and comprehensive introduction to the European reception of East Asian, and especially Daoist, philosophy, and thus one of the most significant contributions of this work is in fulfilling this need.
By using ethimological analysis and relying on historical documents, this article attempts to answer the question of the significance of music in the Confucian tradition of thought and action. The ...analysis reveals the tight relation between the Confucian tradition, especially the early Confucians who are named the “Ruists”, and the imperial music officials. The class of imperial music officials prospered even before the Zhou dynasty, and they were in charge of the state’s music, rites and education. As an important ruist tradition inheritor and representative, Confucius used these three vectors (music, sites and education) as fundamental principles for later Confucianism.
The article focuses on the aspects of self-expression that are revealed in the ethical and cognitive activities of individuals. With reference to Laozi's philosophy, the ideological proposition that ...has risen from Hegel's thinking and has rooted in modernity, is disputed. This proposition voices that specialists of a particular scientific field are confident bearers of reliable truth. This view is opposed to the mystery of nature and human origin, the depths of which no empirical science can exhaust. By exploring one‘s inner world, by cultivating spirit educative moral values and beliefs, it is possible to avoid the opposition between illusions created by the individual and reality. This calls for the aspiration to learn oneself, put efforts in the process to develop, and confidence in a spiritual being higher than man himself.
This paper will use sociological cultural analysis to compare values and practices of shooting with the bow and arrow in Japanese vs Western culture, focusing on Eugen Herrigel’s Zen in the Art of ...Archery, first published in 1948. Herrigel shows the differences in mentalities between the two cultures with respect to shooting with a bow, which in Japanese culture is considered a philosophical act, rather than an act of strength. Japanese archery requires extensive training, as well as a certain state of mind, together with specific values related to the deep respect of the student for the master. As Herrigel is a Westerner, he can use the Japanese cultural approach to archery to guide his readers regarding their expectations for learning the practice. Herrigel’s book is of particular interest, due to current fascination with the specificities of the mindset and values inherent to any culture and civilization. The contemporary world urges us to be aware of the differences among cultures, and also to respect each and every way of thinking. Showing empathy towards cultural differences in thinking is customary, and even necessary, for anyone wishing to live in today’s society. Moreover, the contemplation of Zen archery, as presented by Herrigel, can be helpful even to those who have no intention of taking up the sport, particularly, though not intuitively, academics.The practice of archery and the symbol of the bow and arrow has been analysed from several viewpoints: religion, philosophy, cultural awareness and evolutionary anthropology.
The North Korean state doctrine Juche regards itself as philosophical system, though from a Western angle, it fails to fit into the definition of philosophy. Nevertheless, it is interesting to ...analyze whether it shares the basic characteristics demanded of a philosophical system with emphasis to system, because if it is a systemized thought, then it might be transferred into a philosophical stage. To do so, it must have a philosophical nature as ground which has to be excavated from all the non-philosophical elements and laid bare to unfold. In this paper, we will see that though Juche itself is not fully systemized, it consists of principles which are of philosophical nature, as well as extensions to accelerate the power in the hands of a few and guarantee obedience. If these undemocratic features are given up, several doctrines might unfold that could give a perspective, while Juche as it is now has no future to lead into transformation to a democratic nation-state.
As humans are finite beings, they have sought to understand and find the infinite throughout history. Theologians, philosophers, physicists, logicians, and mathematicians among those of other ...disciplines have all emphasized and tried to explain the notion of infinity in different ways. Ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander was one of the first Westerners to delve into this topic. Indian holy books serve as the first Eastern examples. In Buddhism, the concept colti nayuta literally meaning too many to count expresses infinity. One particular manuscript, the Surya Prajnapti, divides numbers into those that are countable, uncountable, and infinite. Several Old Uyghur translations of Buddhist texts contain many a word that loosely describes infinity. This study will explore that, and examine how the Uyghurs used to perceive infinity by examining between language and thought.
Taoist thinkers interpret existence as a continuous process. The source of changes is not an external force, but a tendency for transformation inherent in the Universe. In the world limited by space, ...time, and causation, in the world of distinctions and oppositions, Taoist practitioners achieve freedom of the mind and go beyond such a distinction. A new worldview without preferences towards any binary opposition is formed. Taoists obtain true knowledge of the world and develop complete awareness of infinity and diversity of life. This paper aims to analyze the key concepts of Taoism.
Thomo Kasulio civilizacinio mąstymo bruo Vareikis, Žilvinas
LOGOS - A Journal of Religion, Philosophy, Comparative Cultural Studies and Art,
2022
113
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The scholarly work of Lithuanian-born American philosopher Thomas Kasulis has been little studied in Lithuania. Kasulis has contributed to Japanese studies by translating numerous Japanese ...philosophical texts and writing works on Zen – Buddhism and Shinto. In his studies of Zen – Buddhism, he highlighted the importance of pre-reflective experience to explain reality. In his studies of Shinto, he revealed the profound meanings of essentialist and existential spirituality. In the comparative philosophy he emphasized two significant concepts of intercultural interaction: integrality and intimacy. With it the thinker tries to substantiate the dynamics of different cultures by explicating art, policy, mentality. Basing on the relevant national analogies the author of the article deepens his knowledge into the most important ideas of Kasulis, his comparative philosophy and his research contexts of Zen – Buddhism and Shinto.
The article explores developed by a French philosopher, sinologist François Julien psychoanalytic concepts, which are suggested to be used for a more accurate description of the logic of the ...psychoanalytical process and its components. This results in a deeper effect of the unthought-of (Fr. impensé). The author explains S. Freud’s theoretical psychoanalysis and its elements through the lens of extracts from Mencius, Confucius, Sunzi’s and other thinkers’ works, as well as images of the Chinese worldview. There, a greater emphasis is placed not on the “cold”, rational origin, but on the processual emotional interpretation, characterized by its situativity, adaptation to the relativity of the situation, and decisions, often made based on the ongoing circumstances, without the declaration of the termination of the situation. Offered by F. Jullien concepts enrich psychoanalysis with a deeper and more nuanced specificity of treatment, as well as offer new valuable connotations to Freud’s theoretical principles of psychoanalysis.
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