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Zen and the modern world : a third sequel to Zen and Western thought / Masao Abe ; edited by Steven Heine.

Abe, Masao, 1915- (Author). Heine, Steven, 1950- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0824826655 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780824826659
Physical Description: xvi, 169 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I Zen and society -- Two types of unity and religious pluralism -- The meaning of life in Buddhism -- Ethics and social responsibility in Buddhism -- Faith and self-awakening : a search for the fundamental category covering all religious life -- Religion and science in the global age : their essential character and mutual relationship -- Part II. Nishida's view of reality and Zen philosophy -- Nishida's philosophy of "place" -- Philosophy, religion, and aesthetics in Nishida and Whitehead -- The problem of "inverse correspondence" in the philosophy of Nishida : comparing Nishida with Tanabe -- Part III. A contemporary approach to Zen self-awakening -- Evil, sin, falsity and the dynamics of faith -- Toward the establishment of a cosmology of awakening.