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" Nietzsche and Buddhism : "
Robert G. Morrison.
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873689
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Morrison, Robert G.
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Nietzsche and Buddhism : : a study in nihilism and ironic affinities /\ Robert G. Morrison.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1997.
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x, 250 pages ;; 23 cm
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0198235569
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: 0198238657
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: 9780198238652
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
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pt. I. Nietzsche's Buddhism. 1. Introduction. 2. Nietzsche on Buddhism. 3. Is Buddhism a Form of 'Passive Nihilism'? 4. How Did Nietzsche Reach his Understanding of Buddhism? -- pt. II. Ironic Affinities. 5. Introduction. 6. Nietzsche's View of Man. 7. The Buddha as a 'Profound Physiologist'. 8. Nietzsche's 'Little Things', the 'Body' and the Buddhist Khandhas. 9. 'God's Shadow' and the Buddhist 'No-Self' Doctrine. 10. 'The Will to Power' and 'Thirst'. 11. 'Self-Overcoming' and 'Mind-Development'. 12. 'Learning to See' and 'Seeing and Knowing Things as they Really Are' -- 13. Epilogue.
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Robert Morrison offers an illuminating comparative study of two linked and interacting traditions that have had great influence in twentieth-century thought: Buddhism and the philosophy of Nietzsche. Nietzsche saw a direct historical parallel between the cultural situation of his own time and of the India of the Buddha's age: the emergence of nihilism as a consequence of loss of traditional belief. Nietzsche's fear, still resonant today, was that Europe was about to enter a nihilistic era in which people, no longer able to believe in the old religious and moral values, would feel themselves adrift in a meaningless cosmos where life seems to have no particular purpose or end. Though he admired Buddhism as a noble and humane response to this situation, Nietzsche came to think that it was wrong in not seeking to overcome nihilism, and constituted a threat to the future of Europe.
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It was in reaction against nihilism that he forged his own affirmative philosophy, aiming at the transvaluation of all values. Nietzsche's view of Buddhism has been very influential in the West; Dr Morrison gives a careful critical examination of this view, argues that in fact Buddhism is far from being a nihilistic religion, and offers a counterbalancing Buddhist view of the Nietzschean enterprise.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,1844-1900.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich,1844-1900-- Views on Buddhism.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,1844-1900-- Et le bouddhisme.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,1844-1900.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1844-1900
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Nietzsche, Friedrich.
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Buddhism-- Doctrines.
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Nihilism (Philosophy)
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Nihilism-- Religious aspects-- Buddhism.
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Bouddhisme-- Doctrines.
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Nihilisme (Philosophie)
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Nihilisme-- Aspect religieux-- Bouddhisme.
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Buddhism-- Doctrines.
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Buddhismus
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Ironie
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Nihilism (Philosophy)
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Nihilism-- Religious aspects-- Buddhism.
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Nihilismus
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Boeddhisme.
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| Dewey Classification
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193
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B3318.B83M67 1997
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08.37bcl
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5,1ssgn
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CG 5917rvk
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