Dialectical practice in Tibetan philosophical culture : an ethnomethodological inquiry into formal reasoning / Kenneth Liberman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liberman, Kenneth, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Social aspects.

Buddhist philosophy.

Debates and debating--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Philosophy, Tibetan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st paperback ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007,c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has missed these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings these dynamic disputations to life for the modern reader through a richly detailed, turn-by-turn analysis of the monks' formal philosophical reasoning. He argues that Tibetan Buddhists deliberately organize their debates into formal structures that both empower and constrain thinking, skillfully using logic as an interactional tool to organize their

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Part I: A Postcolonial Inquiry into Tibetan Dialectics; 1. Orientalism and Tibetological Praxis; 2. Ethnomethodology and the Retrieval of Ordinary Society; 3. The Organization of Reasoning in Tibetan Philosophical Debates; Part II: Philosophical Praxis in the Tibetan Academy; 4. Organizing the Objectivity of the Discourse: Dialectics and Communication; 5. Reason as a Public Activity; 6. Rhymes and Reason: Reason as the In Vivo, Concerted Work of Tibetan Philosophers; 7. Strategies in Tibetan Philosophical Debates

Part III: A Sociology of Reasoning8. Using Reasons: Capabilities of Formal Analysis; 9. Some Betrayals of Formal Analysis; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-30844-7

1-299-45333-3

0-7425-7686-8

OCLC:

855502987