Nietzsche and Buddhism A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities

Name: Nietzsche and Buddhism A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities
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ISBN: 9780198235569

ISBN-10: 0198235569

ISBN-13: 9780198235569

Edition: 1997

Authors: Robert G. Morrison

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Robert Morrison offers an illuminating comparative study of two linked and interactive 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. Nietzche'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…

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List price: $135.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/10/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Robert G. Morrison is President and Partner of Xunesis, a theatre and exhibition production company dedicated to educating the general public about scientific theory and research through creative means. He received his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from UCLA. His research involves understanding how the human brain implements higher cognition.



Abbreviations



Nietzsche's Buddhism



Introduction



Nietzsche on Buddhism



Is Buddhism a Form of 'Passive Nihilism'?



How Did Nietzsche Reach his Understanding of Buddhism?



Ironic Affinities



Introduction



Nietzsche's View of Man



The Buddha as a 'Profound Physiologist'



Nietzsche's 'Little Things', the 'Body' and the Buddhist Khandhas



'God's Shadow' and the Buddhist 'No-Self' Doctrine



'The Will to Power' and 'Thirst'



'Self-Overcoming' and 'Mind-Development'



'Learning to See' and 'Seeing and Knowing Things as they Really Are'



Epilogue


Bibliography


Glossary


Index