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Encounter with enlightenment : a study of Japanese ethics / Robert E. Carter ; foreword by Yuasa Yasuo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Robert Edgar, 1937-
- Series:
- SUNY series in modern Japanese philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics--Japan.
- Ethics.
- Enlightenment.
- Japan.
- Enlightenment--Japan.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 258 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Contrasts and Ideals 1
- Many "Easts," Many "Wests" 5
- The Critical Path 6
- 1. The "Do Nothing" and the Pilgrim: Two Approaches to Ethics 11
- On the Nature of the Will 14
- The Transformation of the Everyday World 16
- The Will in Eastern Thought 18
- Wu-Wei and Non-doing 23
- Evil 24
- On Human-Heartedness 26
- A Radical Interdependence 27
- The Morality of Enlightenment 29
- 2. The Significance of Shintoism for Japanese Ethics 35
- The Importance of the Shinto Perspective 36
- Shrine Shinto (Common Shinto) 39
- In the Beginning 40
- Kami and Evil 43
- Attitudes, Virtues, and Rituals 47
- The Connection to Ancestors 49
- The Way to the Future 50
- Reflective Epilogue 53
- The Ecological Dimension 56
- Ethics and Nature 61
- Shinto and Zen 62
- 3. Confucianism and Japanese Ethics 63
- The Confucian Self 65
- Original Human Goodness 67
- The Importance of Sincerity 69
- Self as Field 70
- Spontaneity 72
- Confucianism in Japan 73
- 4. Buddhism and Japanese Ethics 77
- The Beginnings 79
- Buddhism and Morality 80
- The Ground of Morality 86
- What Happened to Nirvana? 88
- Ethics and Enlightenment 90
- The Bodhisattva 92
- The Path of the Bodhisattva 94
- 5. Zen Buddhism and Ethics 99
- Zen and Enlightenment 101
- Evil and Zen 105
- The Cat Again 108
- Seeing into One's Own Nature 109
- Why Should One Be Moral? 110
- Cats! Cats! Cats! 112
- Zen and Nature 115
- And If the Cat Were Not a Cat? 117
- 6. The Fundamentals: Modern Japanese Ethics 123
- Ningen 126
- The One and the Many 128
- Ethics 130
- Toward Nothingness 132
- Sincerity 135
- Ethics as Contextual 136
- The Importance of the Family 143
- The Complexity of Climate 144
- 7. An Ethics of Transformation: Nishida, Yuasa, and Dogen 149
- The Need to Differentiate 158
- Why the One Differentiates 159
- The Nature of Good Conduct 163
- From Self to No-self 165
- On Self-cultivation 170
- Dogen 174
- Dogen on the "Now" 179
- Conclusion: The Mutuality of Learning in a Global Village 183
- Social Ethics 188
- Ecological Ethics, East and West 198.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791450171
- 079145018X
- OCLC:
- 44969095
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