Examines the influence of Shintoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism on Japanese ethics, with implications for our understanding of various social, economic, and environmental problems.
In Encounter with Enlightenment, Robert E. Carter puts forth the East, and specifically Japan, as a source of possible solutions to the world’s social, economic, and environmental problems. Not only is the book a sustained scholarly analysis of both the religious and philosophical roots of Japan’s distinctive ethical approach to life, but it also provides the Western reader with a context for understanding Eastern values-values that although familiar to the West tend to be deemphasized. Encounter with Enlightenment begins a horizontal fusion between East and West, and establishes a common ground for mutual understanding and for working toward an ethical approach that could resolve some of the earth’s difficulties.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contrasts and Ideals
Many ‘Easts, ‘ Many ‘Wests’
The Critical Path
1. The ‘ Do Nothing ‘ and the Pilgrim: Two Approaches to Ethics
On the Nature of the Will
The Transformation of the Everyday World
The Will in Eastern Thought
Wu-Wei and Non-doing
Evil
On Human-Heartedness
A Radical Interdependence
The Morality of Enlightenment
Conclusion
2. The Significance of Shintoism for Japanese Ethics
The Importance of the Shinto Perspective
Shrine Shinto (Common Shinto)
In the Beginning
Kami and Evil
Attitudes, Virtues, and Rituals
The Connection to Ancestors
The Way to the Future
Reflective Epilogue
The Ecological Dimension
Ethics and Nature
Shinto and Zen
3. Confucianism and Japanese Ethics
The Confucian Self
Original Human Goodness
The Importance of Sincerity
Self as Field
Spontaneity
Confucianism in Japan
4. Buddhism and Japanese Ethics
Introduction
The Beginnings
Buddhism and Morality
The Ground of Morality
What Happened to Nirvana?
Ethics and Enlightenment
The Bodhisattva
The Path of the Bodhisattva
5. Zen Buddhism and Ethics
Zen and Enlightenment
Evil and Zen
The Cat Again
Seeing into One’s Own Nature
Why Should One Be Moral?
Cats! Cats! Cats!
Zen and Nature
And If the Cat Were Not a Cat?
6. The Fundamentals: Modern Japanese Ethics
Ningen
The One and the Many
Ethics
Toward Nothingness
Sincerity
Ethics as Contextual
The Importance of the Family
The Complexity of Climate
7. An Ethics of Transformation: Nishida, Yuasa, and Dogen
The Need to Differentiate
Why the One Differentiates
The Nature of Good Conduct
From Self to No-self
On Self-cultivation
Dogen
Dogen on the ‘Now’
Conclusion: The Mutuality of Learning in a Global Village
Social Ethics
Final Reflections
Ecological Ethics, East and West
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Sobre o autor
Yuasa Yasuo (1925–2005) was Professor Emeritus at Obirin University in Japan and the author of several books, including Overcoming Modernity: Synchronicity and Image-Thinking, The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy and The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory, both also published by SUNY Press.
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