Nietzsche and Buddhism - A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities

Zusatztext This is an important book; a comparative study which explores convincingly and in detail the remarkable similarities and areas of philosophic agreement between Nietzsche and Buddhism .... engagingly written. Klappentext Morrison offers an illuminating study of two linked traditions that have figured prominently in twentieth-century thought: Buddhism and the philosophy of Nietzsche. Nietzsche admired Buddhism, but saw it as a dangerously nihilistic religion; he forged his own affirmative philosophy in reaction against the nihilism that he feared would overwhelm Europe. Morrison shows that Nietzsche's influential view of Buddhism was mistaken, and that far from being nihilistic, it has notable and perhaps surprising affinities with Nietzsche's own project of the transvaluation of all values. Zusammenfassung This text is aimed at philosophers interested in Nietzsche or in the comparative study of Western and Eastern religion and philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Robert G Morrison, Robert G. Morrison, Morrison Robert G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.1997
• EAN: 9780198235569
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823556-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, Buddhism, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy