Becoming Bamboo: Western and Eastern Explorations of the Meaning of LifeMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 27.03.1992 г. - 240 страници The many problems we face in today's world -- among them war, environmental destruction, religious and racial intolerance, and inappropriate technologies -- demand that we carefully re-evaluate such issues as our relation to the environment, the nature of progress, ultimate purposes, and human values. These are all issues, Robert Carter explains, that are intimately linked to our perception of life's meaning. While many books discuss life's meaning either analytically or prescriptively, Carter addresses values and ways of meaningful living from a broader perspective, using Japanese philosophy to augment his investigation. He examines Martin Heidegger's distinction between "dwelling" and existing in the world, Lawrence Kohlberg's "stage seven" of human moral development, and the works of Viktor Frankl, Carol Gilligan, and Nel Noddings. He applies hermeneutic and deconstructionist theory to the question of meaning, and explores the feminist contribution to ethics and its relation to the interconnectedness of things celebrated in Zen and Shinto thought. Bridging various dichotomies such as East/West, reason/emotion, male/female, and caring/justice, Carter shows that ethics, environmental concern, caring, and joy in living are dependent on the growth and transformation of the self. Only by becoming aware of the interrelatedness of things, Carter reveals, can we become as supple and as strong as the bamboo tree, long the symbol of longevity and constancy. |
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... traditions , for example , does not correspond to Western philosophy as it is understood today . But it is worth noting that much of previous Western philosophy does not so correspond either . The speculations and analyses of Buddhist ...
... traditions , for example , does not correspond to Western philosophy as it is understood today . But it is worth noting that much of previous Western philosophy does not so correspond either . The speculations and analyses of Buddhist ...
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... traditions . This means that we all have each others ' intellectual and heroic ancestors . The Westerner has Confucius and Shankara as his fore- bears , as the Easterner has Plato and Locke . She has the Mughals and Tokugawas as the ...
... traditions . This means that we all have each others ' intellectual and heroic ancestors . The Westerner has Confucius and Shankara as his fore- bears , as the Easterner has Plato and Locke . She has the Mughals and Tokugawas as the ...
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... tradition . The path he has followed was in part prepared by the Japanese themselves , since in their remarkable ... traditions , and so on . Such smaller - scale religions have much to teach the world . Then there are new religions ...
... tradition . The path he has followed was in part prepared by the Japanese themselves , since in their remarkable ... traditions , and so on . Such smaller - scale religions have much to teach the world . Then there are new religions ...
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... tradition is in a world minority - and the softening effects of living beside others who have diverse cultural values will eventually cause all traditions by and large to enter the liberal or modernist fold . There they can maintain ...
... tradition is in a world minority - and the softening effects of living beside others who have diverse cultural values will eventually cause all traditions by and large to enter the liberal or modernist fold . There they can maintain ...
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... tradition and answered in a way that attends to the specific issues and concerns of the time . Here I want only to sketch out an approach to value and valuation that will serve to make sense of the distinctions that will arise in later ...
... tradition and answered in a way that attends to the specific issues and concerns of the time . Here I want only to sketch out an approach to value and valuation that will serve to make sense of the distinctions that will arise in later ...
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2 Kohlbergs Stage Seven | 44 |
3 Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy | 70 |
4 Relatedness | 97 |
5 Where Is Here? | 128 |
6 Deconstructing Meaning | 168 |
Notes | 193 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Index | 219 |
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