Nothingness and desire :
Heisig, James W., 1944-
Nothingness and desire : an East-West philosophical antiphony / James W. Heisig. - 1 online resource (202 pages). - Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture . - Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture. .
"Jordan lectures 2011."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The guiding fictions -- Desire and its objects -- Desire without a proper object -- Nothingness and being -- The nothingness of desire and the desire for nothingness -- Defining self through no-self -- Getting over one's self -- The mind of nothingness -- The self with its desires -- No-self with its desire -- No-self and self-transcendence -- God and death -- From God to nothingness -- God and life -- Displacing the personal God -- Towards an impersonal god -- The absolute of relatedness -- The god of nothingness -- The place of morality -- Convivial harmony -- Customs, habits, decisions -- Morality and religion -- The moral subject in love -- The experience of happiness -- Giving and receiving -- The body as property -- Detachment -- Orthoaesthesis -- Consumption -- Sufficiency -- An elusive horizon -- Rewriting the history of philosophy -- Philosophical antiphony -- Cultural disarmament -- Philosophy beyond the divide.
9780824839567 (electronic bk.) 0824839560 (electronic bk.)
Philosophy, Comparative.
Nothing (Philosophy)
Desire (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY / Eastern
Electronic books.
B799 / .H38 2013eb
181
Nothingness and desire : an East-West philosophical antiphony / James W. Heisig. - 1 online resource (202 pages). - Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture . - Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture. .
"Jordan lectures 2011."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The guiding fictions -- Desire and its objects -- Desire without a proper object -- Nothingness and being -- The nothingness of desire and the desire for nothingness -- Defining self through no-self -- Getting over one's self -- The mind of nothingness -- The self with its desires -- No-self with its desire -- No-self and self-transcendence -- God and death -- From God to nothingness -- God and life -- Displacing the personal God -- Towards an impersonal god -- The absolute of relatedness -- The god of nothingness -- The place of morality -- Convivial harmony -- Customs, habits, decisions -- Morality and religion -- The moral subject in love -- The experience of happiness -- Giving and receiving -- The body as property -- Detachment -- Orthoaesthesis -- Consumption -- Sufficiency -- An elusive horizon -- Rewriting the history of philosophy -- Philosophical antiphony -- Cultural disarmament -- Philosophy beyond the divide.
9780824839567 (electronic bk.) 0824839560 (electronic bk.)
Philosophy, Comparative.
Nothing (Philosophy)
Desire (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY / Eastern
Electronic books.
B799 / .H38 2013eb
181
