Reality and mystical experience

著者

• Brainard, F. Samuel

書誌事項

Reality and mystical experience

F. Samuel Brainard

Pennsylvania State University Press, c2000

• : hbk
• : pbk

注記

Bibliography: p. 275-284

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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-Vedanta Hinduism, Madhyamika 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 Godel, 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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA50841316
• ISBN:
  • 0271019379
  • 0271019735
• LCCN: 98054922
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: University Park, Pa.
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 295 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • NDC9 : 161.1
  • LCC : BL51
  • DC21 : 291.4/22
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Religion -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Mysticism -- Comparative studies