Nietzsche and Buddhism : a study in nihilism and ironic affinities / Robert G. Morrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Robert G.

Language:

English

German

Pahlavi

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Buddhism--Doctrines.

Buddhism.

Nihilism--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Nihilism.

Nihilism (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

x, 250 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

Includes translated quotes from German and Pali.

Summary:

Morrison offers an illuminating study of two linked traditions that have figured prominently in twentieth-century thought: Buddhism and the philosophy of Nietzsche. Nietzsche admired Buddhism, but saw it as a dangerously nihilistic religion; he forged his own affirmative philosophy in reaction against the nihilism that he feared would overwhelm Europe. Morrison shows that Nietzsche's influential view of Buddhism was mistaken, and that far from being nihilistic, it has notable and perhaps surprising affinities with Nietzsche's own project of the transvaluation of all values.

Contents:

Part I. Nietzsche's Buddhism 1

2. Nietzsche on Buddhism 7

3. Is Buddhism a Form of 'Passive Nihilism'? 30

4. How Did Nietzsche Reach his Understanding of Buddhism? 52

Part II. Ironic Affinities 61

6. Nietzsche's View of Man 64

7. The Buddha as a 'Profound Physiologist' 96

8. Nietzsche's 'Little Things', the 'Body' and the Buddhist Khandhas 103

9. 'God's Shadow' and the Buddhist 'No-Self' Doctrine 114

10. 'The Will to Power' and 'Thirst' 132

11. 'Self-Overcoming' and 'Mind-Development' 155

12. 'Learning to See' and 'Seeing and Knowing Things as they Really Are' 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-242) and index.

ISBN:

0198235569

OCLC:

36122080