Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind - A Constructive Engagement

This book deepens and extends the dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and 4E philosophy of mind and phenomenology. It engages with core issues in the philosophy of mind, broadly construed in and through the dialogue between Buddhism and enactivism.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

• On Comparative Philosophy
• Overview of the Chapters
• Enacting Selves
  • No-Self
  • Buddhist Reductionism
  • Four Problems for Buddhist Reductionism
  • The Dependent Origination of Sentient Beings
  • Sentience and Subjectivity
  • Subjectivity and Self
  • Self-Making
  • Conclusion
• Luminosity
  • Luminosity
  • Self-Luminosity and Other-Luminosity
  • Dual-Aspect Reflexivism
  • Temporality
  • Dynamic Embodied Nondual Awareness
• Agency and Other Minds
  • Karma
  • Agentless Agency
  • Enactive Agency
  • Psychological Agency
  • Other Minds
  • Conclusion
• Enacting Worlds
  • The Co-Emergence of Self and World
  • Enacting Worlds
  • Enaction, Emptiness, and Realism
  • The Three Natures of Phenomena
• Cultivating Compassion
• The Säs¿ric Framework
• Bodhicitta, Empathy, and Open Intersubjectivity
• Meditative Concentration
• The Four Point Mind Training
  • Equality of Self and Other
  • The Limits of Self-Cherishing
  • The Benefits of Altruism
  • Exchange of Self and Other
  Conclusion
  Bibliography
  
  
  

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Product details

• Authors: Matthew MacKenzie
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781538160121
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6012-1
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Critical Inquiries in Comparative Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist, Buddhism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Oriental & Indian philosophy, East Asian & Indian philosophy