Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Edited book | Itineraries of an Anthropologist
Chapter | Philosophical Truth and Buddhist Wisdom
Philosophical Truth and Buddhist Wisdom
For a Dialogical Dialogue
Abstract
This essay offers a ‘dialogical dialogue’ between the philosophical and the Buddhist experiences. The first is represented by the philosophy of pure difference and pure positive, which shows how even truth, which characterises Western thought, is based on axiological assumptions, in particular that of the pure positive. The second is represented by Buddhist wisdom, specifically that explained by M. Raveri in his essay on Buddhism within Japanese society in the first centuries of the last millennium. Contradictions and conflicts, that seem to prejudice Buddhist conception and practice, appear instead, in the gaze of pure difference, as the true path that can lead humans to salvation.
Published Oct. 18, 2021 | Language: en
Keywords Buddhist wisdom • Philosophy of pure positive • ‘Dialogical dialogue’ • Amidist Buddhism • Path to salvation • Philosophical truth
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