Responding to our modern disillusionment with any claims to
absolute truth regarding morality or reality, this book offers a
conceptual approach for discussing absolutes without denying either
the relevance of divergent religious and philosophical teachings or
the evidence supporting postmodern and poststructuralist critiques.
Case studies of mysticism within Advaita-Vedānta Hinduism,
Mādhyamika Buddhism, and Nicene Christianity demonstrate the value
of this approach and offer many fresh insights into the
metaphysical presuppositions of these religions as well as into the
nature and value of mystical experience. Like Douglas Hofstadter's
Gōdel, Escher, Bach, this book finds ultimate reality to be
rationally graspable only as an eternal fugue of pattern and
paradox. Yet it does not so much counter other philosophical views
as provide a conceptual tool for understanding and classifying
incommensurable views.
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