Distinguishing The Views And Philosophies

Author : Bötrül
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438434391

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Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies by Bötrül Pdf

This is an essential work of Tibetan Buddhist thought written by an influential scholar of the twentieth century. From the same Nyingma school as the great Tibetan philosopher Mipam, Botrul in this text provides a systematic overview of Mipam's teachings on the Middle Way. Presenting the Nyingma tradition within a rich constellation of diverse perspectives, Botrul contrasts Nyingma views point-by-point with positions held by other Tibetan schools. Botrul's work addresses a wide range of complex topics in Buddhist doctrine in a beautifully structured composition in verse and prose. Notably, Botrul sheds light on the elusive meaning of "emptiness" and presents an interpretation that is unique to his Nyingma school. Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies exemplifies the vigorous tradition of Tibetan Buddhist scholarship and is widely studied in the contemporary monastic colleges of Tibet, India, and Nepal. Douglas Samuel Duckworth's translation will make this work widely available in English for the first time, and his thoughtful commentary will provide insight and context for readers.

Author : Bötrül
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438434377

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Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies by Bötrül Pdf

An annotated translation of an essential work of twentieth-century Tibetan Buddhist thought, one that explicates teachings on the Middle Way.

Author : Go-rams-pa Bsod-nams-seng-ge,Jose Ignacio Cabezon,Lobsang Dargyay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861715237

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Freedom from Extremes by Go-rams-pa Bsod-nams-seng-ge,Jose Ignacio Cabezon,Lobsang Dargyay Pdf

"What is emptiness? This question has preoccupied the greatest minds of India and Tibet for almost two millennia, producing hundreds of volumes by scholars grappling with this question. Differentiating the Views (lTa ba'i shan 'byed), by the fifteenth-century Sakya scholar Goram Sonam Sengge, or Gorampa, is one of the most important expositions of the philosophy of emptiness in all of Tibetan literature, a work esteemed for its conciseness, lucidity, and profundity. So influential is this book that it is taught in Tibet's greatest academic institutions even to the present day. "

Author : Douglas S. Duckworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190883959

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Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature by Douglas S. Duckworth Pdf

"Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature is a philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Charting the different ways Buddhist traditions in Tibet configure the relationship between Madhyamaka and Mind-Only, Duckworth shows how these configurations inform the shape of distinct contemplative practices"--

Author : Joseph John Gurney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : WISC:89097267611

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Observations on the Distinguishing Views & Practices of the Society of Friends by Joseph John Gurney Pdf

Author : Joseph John Gurney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : HARVARD:HN61N5

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Observations on the Distinguishing Views and Practices of the Society of Friends by Joseph John Gurney Pdf

Author : Joseph John GURNEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019507432

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Observations on the distinguishing views and practices of the Society of Friends. Seventh edition, with ... additions by Joseph John GURNEY Pdf

Author : Amber Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317547778

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Indian Buddhist Philosophy by Amber Carpenter Pdf

Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter examines their core ethical, metaphysical and epistemological views as well as the distinctive area of Buddhist ethics that we call today moral psychology. Throughout, this book follows three key themes that both tie the tradition together and are the focus for most critical dialogue: the idea of anatman or no-self, the appearance/reality distinction and the moral aim, or ideal. Indian Buddhist philosophy is shown to be a remarkably rich tradition that deserves much wider engagement from European philosophy. Carpenter shows that while we should recognise the differences and distances between Indian and European philosophy, its driving questions and key conceptions, we must resist the temptation to find in Indian Buddhist philosophy, some Other, something foreign, self-contained and quite detached from anything familiar. Indian Buddhism is shown to be a way of looking at the world that shares many of the features of European philosophy and considers themes central to philosophy understood in the European tradition.

Author : Alfred Sidgwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : UCAL:B3351651

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Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs by Alfred Sidgwick Pdf

Author : Wilhelm Dilthey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691195575

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Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume VI by Wilhelm Dilthey Pdf

This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, hermeneutics, and the theory of the human sciences. These volumes make available to English readers texts that represent the full range of Dilthey's work. The works in this volume present Dilthey's most deeply held views about philosophy and how it can guide human practices. System of Ethics (1890) argues that Humean sympathy motivates us only externally and must be replaced with the internally motivated fellow-feeling of solidarity that respects others as ends in themselves. The Essence of Philosophy (1907) demonstrates how philosophy has developed from its traditional metaphysical role to the epistemological and encyclopedic functions that ground and order the natural and human sciences. The work also discloses an orientational function of philosophy that is explored further in "The Types of World-View and Their Development" (1911). Philosophical world-views are important in that they address the existential needs and riddles that grow out of life experience and are not solved by any of the sciences. In addition, the book features three other significant essays. "Present Day Culture and Philosophy" (1898) concerns the challenges to philosophy posed by contemporary culture. "Dream" (1903) is about the thinkers portrayed in Raphael's School of Athens and Dilthey's worries about them breaking up into three divergent groups. Finally, "The Problem of Religion" (1911) considers how religiosity can still inform lived experience in secular times.

Author : Isaac Sharpless
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0469359404

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Four Lectures on Some of the Distinguishing Views of Friends by Isaac Sharpless Pdf

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Author : Alfred Sidgwick
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0332175332

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Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs (Classic Reprint) by Alfred Sidgwick Pdf

Excerpt from Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs The object of this book is not complacently to put forward a recondite system of certainties, but to raise and discuss from an ordinary point of view some questions which seem to me interesting, many-sided, and hard to answer. The faith in which it is written is that, so far as people gene rally dislike philosophy, it is rather the name than the thing itself that they dislike - the name, with its supposed pretensions of superiority. From modesty alone many people hide from themselves their own philosophical inclinations, and start with a prejudice against any writer who confesses such inclinations openly. Perhaps no complete defence is possible. However, the truth remains (and the charitable reader will see it) that I do not think there is at present room for anything like authority in treating these questions. They present to me, therefore, not a chance of playing the oracle, but at most a chance of joining others in their own pursuit of truth. Some charitable consideration for the style may also be claimed in other respects. For instance, technical terms cannot entirely be dispensed with, try as hard as one may to write the plainest English. And, again, satisfactory examples are difficult to select, for, the clearer and more familiar they are, the more they tend to be trivial. In these and similar matters a writer has to find his way as well as he can between opposite dangers, and can not expect entire success in doing so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Raymond Geuss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674245938

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Who Needs a World View? by Raymond Geuss Pdf

One of the world’s most provocative philosophers attacks the obsession with comprehensive intellectual systems—the perceived need for a world view. We live in a unitary cosmos created and cared for in all its details by a benevolent god. That, for centuries, was the starting point for much philosophical and religious thinking in the West. The task was to accommodate ourselves to that view and restrict ourselves to working out how the pieces fit together within a rigidly determined framework. In this collection of essays, one of our most creative contemporary philosophers explores the problems and pathologies of the habit of overly systematic thinking that we have inherited from this past. Raymond Geuss begins by making a general case for flexible and skeptical thinking with room for doubt and unresolved complexity. He examines the ideas of two of his most influential teachers—one systematic, the other pragmatic—in light of Nietzsche’s ideas about appearance and reality. The chapters that follow concern related moral, psychological, and philosophical subjects. These include the idea that one should make one’s life a work of art, the importance of games, the concept of need, and the nature of manifestoes. Along the way, Geuss ranges widely, from ancient philosophy to modern art, with his characteristic combination of clarity, acuity, and wit. Who Needs a World View? is a provocative and enlightening demonstration of what philosophy can achieve when it abandons its ambitions for completeness, consistency, and unity.

Author : V. F. Cordova
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816526486

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How It Is by V. F. Cordova Pdf

Viola Cordova was the first Native American woman to receive a PhD in philosophy. Even as she became an expert on canonical works of traditional Western philosophy, she devoted herself to defining a Native American philosophy. Although she passed away before she could complete her life’s work, some of her colleagues have organized her pioneering contributions into this provocative book. In three parts, Cordova sets out a complete Native American philosophy. First she explains her own understanding of the nature of reality itself—the origins of the world, the relation of matter and spirit, the nature of time, and the roles of culture and language in understanding all of these. She then turns to our role as residents of the Earth, arguing that we become human as we deepen our relation to our people and to our places, and as we understand the responsibilities that grow from those relationships. In the final section, she calls for a new reverence in a world where there is no distinction between the sacred and the mundane. Cordova clearly contrasts Native American beliefs with the traditions of the Enlightenment and Christianized Europeans (what she calls “Euroman” philosophy). By doing so, she leads her readers into a deeper understanding of both traditions and encourages us to question any view that claims a singular truth. From these essays—which are lucid, insightful, frequently funny, and occasionally angry—we receive a powerful new vision of how we can live with respect, reciprocity, and joy.

Author : Kali Charan Pandey
Publisher : Rawat Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy and religion
ISBN : 813160196X

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Ludwig Wittgenstein by Kali Charan Pandey Pdf

This book is a critical exposition of multiple facets of Ludwig Wittgenstein's thoughts on ethics and religion. The book first brings out foundations of Wittgenstein's views. Then, it deals with various issues of current debates in the philosophy of Wittgenstein, such as: the notion of transcendental ethics . the dichotomy between fact and value . the distinction between religious and superstitious beliefs . the notion of happiness and human being . discussions on Fideism . whether Wittgenstein's methodology was Christian or Jewish . Wittgenstein's religious thoughts in the context of logical positivism and Habermas. The book is useful not only for students of philosophy and theology but also for a lay reader who is interested in an in-depth analysis of the realm of meta-ethics and religious philosophy of language.