Encounter With Enlightenment: A Study of Japanese Ethics

, by Carter, Robert Edgar

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ISBN: 9780791450185 | 079145018X
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Copyright: 10/1/2000

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Author Biography

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

xxxi

Introduction: Contrasts and Ideals

(4)

Many ``Easts,'' Many ``Wests''

(1)

The Critical Path

(5)

The ``Do Nothing'' and the Pilgrim: Two Approaches to Ethics

(24)

On the Nature of the Will

(2)

The Transformation of the Everyday World

(2)

The Will in Eastern Thought

(5)

Wu-Wei and Non-doing

(1)

Evil

(2)

On Human-Heartedness

(1)

A Radical Interdependence

(2)

The Morality of Enlightenment

(2)

Conclusion

(4)

The Significance of Shintoism for Japanese Ethics

(28)

The Importance of the Shinto Perspective

(3)

Shrine Shinto (Common Shinto)

(1)

In the Beginning

(3)

Kami and Evil

(4)

Attitudes, Virtues, and Rituals

(2)

The Connection to Ancestors

(1)

The Way to the Future

(3)

Reflective Epilogue

(3)

The Ecological Dimension

(5)

Ethics and Nature

(1)

Shinto and Zen

(1)

Confucianism and Japanese Ethics

(14)

The Confucian Self

(2)

Original Human Goodness

(2)

The Importance of Sincerity

(1)

Self as Field

(2)

Spontaneity

(1)

Confucianism in Japan

(4)

Buddhism and Japanese Ethics

(22)

Introduction

(2)

The Beginnings

(1)

Buddhism and Morality

(6)

The Ground of Morality

(2)

What Happened to Nirvana?

(2)

Ethics and Enlightenment

(2)

The Bodhisattva

(2)

The Path of the Bodhisattva

(5)

Zen Buddhism and Ethics

(24)

Zen and Enlightenment

101

(4)

Evil and Zen

105

(3)

The Cat Again

108

(1)

Seeing into One's Own Nature

109

(1)

Why Should One Be Moral?

110

(2)

Cats! Cats! Cats!

112

(3)

Zen and Nature

115

(2)

And If the Cat Were Not a Cat?

117

(6)

The Fundamentals: Modern Japanese Ethics

123

(26)

Ningen

126

(2)

The One and the Many

128

(2)

Ethics

130

(2)

Toward Nothingness

132

(3)

Sincerity

135

(1)

Ethics as Contextual

136

(7)

The Importance of the Family

143

(1)

The Complexity of Climate

144

(5)

An Ethics of Transformation: Nishida, Yuasa, and Dogen

149

(34)

The Need to Differentiate

158

(1)

Why the One Differentiates

159

(4)

The Nature of Good Conduct

163

(2)

From Self to No-Self

165

(5)

On Self-cultivation

170

(4)

Dogen

174

(5)

Dogen on the ``Now''

179

(4)

Conclusion: The Mutuality of Learning in a Global Village

183

(20)

Social Ethics

188

(6)

Final Reflections

194

(4)

Ecological Ethics, East and West

198

(5)

Notes

203

(28)

Selected Bibliography

231

(14)

Index

245

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