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 philosophical 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 A comparative study of Buddhism and the philosophy of Nietzsche. The book provides a critical examination to Nietzsche's view of Buddhism, arguing that Buddhism is far from being a nihilistic religion, and offering a counterbalancing Buddhist view of the Nietzschean enterprise. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: 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? PART TWO: 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 Bibliography; Glossary; Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert G. Morrison, Morrison Robert G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.1999
• EAN: 9780198238652
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823865-2
• 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