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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Oriental religions > Taoism
Typically, in the Western philosophical tradition, the presence of
paradox and contradictions is taken to signal the failure or
refutation of a theory or line of thinking. This aversion to
paradox rests on the commitment-whether implicit or explicit-to the
view that reality must be consistent. In What Can't be Said, Yasuo
Deguchi, Jay L. Garfield, Graham Priest, and Robert H. Sharf extend
their earlier arguments that the discovery of paradox and
contradiction can deepen rather than disprove a philosophical
position, and confirm these ideas in the context of East Asian
philosophy. They claim that, unlike most Western philosophers, many
East Asian philosophers embraced paradox, and provide textual
evidence for this claim. Examining two classical Daoist texts, the
Daodejing and the Zhaungzi, as well as the trajectory of Buddhism
in East Asia, including works from the Sanlun, Tiantai, Chan, and
Zen traditions and culminating with the Kyoto school of philosophy,
they argue that these philosophers' commitment to paradox reflects
an understanding of reality as inherently paradoxical, revealing
significant philosophical insights.
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