ナーガールジュナと空の倫理：仏教と宗教と哲学のあいだ Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy : N?g?rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness

著者名：Stepien, Rafal K.

Oxford University Press（2024/04/23発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197771303
• eISBN：9780197771327

Description

N?g?rjuna (c. 150-250), founder of the Madhyamaka or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy and the most influential of all Buddhist thinkers aside from the Buddha himself, concludes his masterpiece, Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, with these baffling verses: For the abandonment of all views He taught the true teaching By means of compassion I salute him, Gautama But how could anyone possibly abandon all views? In Buddhism between Religion and Philosophy, Rafal K. Stepien shows not only how N?g?rjuna's radical teaching of no-view or ?abelief? makes sense within his Buddhist philosophy, but also how it stands at the summit of his religious mission to care for all living beings. Rather than treating any one aspect of N?g?rjuna's ideas in isolation, here his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics emerge as a single coherent and convincing philosophical-religious system of thought and practice. Grounded in meticulous study of original texts from classical India and China but innovating on the theories and methods underpinning contemporary scholarship East and West, this study shows how profoundly important voices from the diverse religious and philosophical traditions of the world have until now been diminished, distorted, and silenced. In opening up truly global horizons of existing and co-existing in the world, this work challenges the very ways in which we think about religion and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Emptiness Between the Lines: Reading Buddhist Philosophy of/and/as Religion 0.0. The Dream is Over 0.1. N?g?rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness 0.2. Believing Between the Lines 0.3. Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy 0.4. Contexts and Texts Chapter 1: Orienting Reason: A Religious Critique of Philosophizing N?g?rjuna 1.1. The Unimaginative Question 1.2. Unveiling the East 1.3. Orientalizing Reasons1.4. Reimagining Religion and Philosophy Chapter 2: Logical, Buddhological, Buddhist: A Critical Study of the Tetralemma 2.1. Matters & Methods 2.2. The Logical Tetralemma 2.3. The Buddhological Tetralemma 2.4. The Buddhist Tetralemma Chapter 3: N?g?rjuna's Tetralemma: Tetr?letheia & Tath?gata, Utterance & Anontology 3.1 The Dilemma of the Tetralemma 3.2 The Exhaustive Tetralemma 3.3 Tetralemma as Tetr?letheia 3.4 Tetr?letheia as Tath?gata 3.5 Utterance and Anontology 3.6 Tetralemma and No-Teaching 3.7 Silencing Nothing Chapter 4: Abandoning All Views: A Buddhist Critique of Belief 4.1. Views on Abandoning Views 4.2. N?g?rjuna's Abandoning Views 4.3. Abandoning N?g?rjuna's Views Chapter 5: All-Embracing Emptiness: N?g?rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness 5.1. The Abandonment of Ethics? 5.2. The Ethics of Abandonment 5.3. From Ethics to Eirenics 5.4. Abandoning All, Embracing All Bibliography Index