| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages) |
| Contents |
Western philosophies of consciousness. Major contributions. Brentano -- Husserl -- Sartre -- Lonergan -- Complementary contributions. From intentionality to consciousness : Searle -- Degrees of consciousness : Crosby -- Further clarifications : Helminiak -- Affective side : Morelli -- Accounts of mystical consciousness. Forman on pure consciousness events -- Realm of transcendence according to Lonergan -- Moore on the "how" of consciousness -- Price on bare consciousness -- Granfield on the mystical difference -- Three classics. Plotinus : consciousness beyond consciousness. Grand worldview -- Intellect's share in the good -- Ordinary consciousness -- What happens beyond consciousness? -- No blackout and yet no self-consciousness -- Ecstasy, or enstasy? -- Eckhart : when consciousness becomes divine consciousness. Emptiness of the human intellect -- No awareness -- Nothingness -- Detached love without a why -- Is the soul equated with God? -- Soul's breakthrough to the Godhead -- Schleiermacher : consciousness as feeling. Feeling -- Prereflective and reflective consciousness -- Absolute dependence -- Three kinds of consciousness -- Dialogue with Zen philosophy. Western views of the self. Arguing against the self -- Arguing for the self -- Transcending the self -- Japanese views of the self. Suzuki -- Nishitani -- Western view of nothingness. Plotinus and Eckhart -- Hedger -- Nishitani as interpreter of Plotinus, Eckhart, and Heidegger -- Japanese views of nothingness. Nishitani's approach to nihilism -- Nishitani's characterization of "absolute nothingness" --Hisamatsu's characterization of "oriental nothingness." |
| Summary |
"This book offers a philosophical account of ordinary consciousness as a step toward understanding mystical consciousness. Presupposing a living interaction between meditation and thinking, the work draws on Western and Japanese thinkers to develop a philosophy of religion that is friendly to the experience of meditators and that can explore such themes as emptiness, nothingness, and the self. Western thinkers considered include Plotinus, Eckhart, Schleiermacher, Heidegger, Brentano, Husserl, Sartre, and Lonergan; and Japanese thinkers referenced include Nishitani, Hisamatsu, and Suzuki. All employed centering prayer, Zen, or other forms of mental concentration. Particular emphasis is placed on the work of twentieth-century Catholic philosopher Bernard Lonergan, whose writings on consciousness can inform an understanding of mysticism."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy, European -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, Japanese -- 20th century.
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Zen Buddhism -- Philosophy
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RELIGION -- General.
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Philosophy, European
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Philosophy, Japanese
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Religion -- Philosophy
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Zen Buddhism -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1417506830 |
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9781417506835 |
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0791456439 |
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9780791456439 |
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0791456447 |
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9780791456446 |
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9780791487310 |
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0791487318 |
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