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Engaging Buddhism - Why It Matters to Philosophy (Paperback)
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Engaging Buddhism - Why It Matters to Philosophy (Paperback)
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This is a book for scholars of Western philosophy who wish to
engage with Buddhist philosophy, or who simply want to extend their
philosophical horizons. It is also a book for scholars of Buddhist
studies who want to see how Buddhist theory articulates with
contemporary philosophy. Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to
Philosophy articulates the basic metaphysical framework common to
Buddhist traditions. It then explores questions in metaphysics, the
philosophy of mind, phenomenology, epistemology, the philosophy of
language and ethics as they are raised and addressed in a variety
of Asian Buddhist traditions. In each case the focus is on
philosophical problems; in each case the connections between
Buddhist and contemporary Western debates are addressed, as are the
distinctive contributions that the Buddhist tradition can make to
Western discussions. Engaging Buddhism is not an introduction to
Buddhist philosophy, but an engagement with it, and an argument for
the importance of that engagement. It does not pretend to
comprehensiveness, but it does address a wide range of Buddhist
traditions, emphasizing the heterogeneity and the richness of those
traditions. The book concludes with methodological reflections on
how to prosecute dialogue between Buddhist and Western traditions.
"Garfield has a unique talent for rendering abstruse philosophical
concepts in ways that make them easy to grasp. This is an important
book, one that can profitably be read by scholars of Western and
non-Western philosophy, including specialists in Buddhist
philosophy. This is in my estimation the most important work on
Buddhist philosophy in recent memory. It covers a wide range of
topics and provides perhaps the clearest analysis of some core
Buddhist ideas to date. This is landmark work. I think it's the
best cross-cultural analysis of the relevance of Buddhist thought
for contemporary philosophy in the present literature. "-C. John
Powers, Professor, School of Culture, History & Language,
Australian National University
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