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):

Enlightenment--Japan.

Enlightenment.

Ethics--Japan.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 258 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""ENCOUNTER WITH ENLIGHTENMENT: A Study of Japanese Ethics""; ""Contents""; ""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 SHINTOÂ ̄PERSPECTIVE"" ""SHRINE SHINTOÂ ̄(COMMON SHINTOÂ)̄""; ""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""; ""SHINTOÂ ̄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 NIRVAÂN̄A?""; ""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""; ""TOWARDS 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""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-244) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-7914-9030-0

OCLC:

794701297