Beyond Personal Identity · Dogen, Nishida, and a Phenomenology of No-Self (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion) by Kopf, Gereon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half Title Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Introduction

Dōgen Kigen Nishida Kitarō Methodological Considerations

Part One: Personal Identity Revisited

Chapter One: The Problem of Personal Identity

Introduction The concept of personal identity Three theories of personal identity

introduction personal identity qua substance personal identity qua bodily continuity personal identity qua psychological continuity

The concept of personal identity revealed as a convenient fiction

personal identity as further fact the indeterminacy of personal identity personal identity is not “what matters”

The construction of personal identity

personal identity and intentionality the emergence of two selves

Summary

Part Two: Zen Buddhism and Phenomenology on Self-Awareness

Chapter Two: Selfhood

Introduction

outline of part two the problem of selfhood

Cogito and self-consciousness: a phenomenology of the self

the conception of the cogito cogito as intentional act self-consciousness the dual self summary

“To study the self is to forget the self” – selfhood in Dōgen

no-self in Buddhism introduction to Dōgen Dōgen’s “self” as positional act self-awareness in Dōgen somaticity and self-awareness

Nishida on selfhood

introduction the dual self non-positional awareness self-awareness and internal negation conclusion

Summary

Chapter Three: Otherness

Introduction Alterity and intersubjectivity

existential ambiguity of self and other excursion: psychic synchronization and psychic entanglement in Jung

“To cast off self and other” – alterity in Dōgen

alterity in early Buddhism Dōgen and otherness the moment of alterity the paradox of alterity intersubjectivity

I and Thou in Nishida

The interaction of I and Thou the disappearance of the self non-thetic awareness the modality of expression

Summary

Chapter Four: Continuity of Experience

Introduction The notion of continuity No-self and continuity in Early Buddhism

impermanence and permanence impermanence and continuity the collapse of continuity

From dharma-position to dharma-position – continuity in Dōgen From the present to the present – continuity in Nishida

from the created to the creating from the present to the present

Summary

Chapter Five: Temporality

Introduction A phenomenology of time

abstract time phenomenal time lived time temporality and the problem of free will

Existence-time – time in Dōgen

time in early Buddhism time in Dōgen inauthentic experience of time authentic experience of time the immediate now

The non-relative present – Nishida on time

introduction linear time and circular time the problem of repeatability dialectical time eternal present

Summary Temporality and personal identity

Part Three: Zen Conceptions of Indentity

Chapter Six: A Zen Phenomenology of Experience

Introduction A Mahāyāna Buddhist phenomenology of experience The abstract world The phenomenal world The lived world

introduction lived world as epistemic reorientation lived world as activity summary

The actual world

non-positional awareness the dialectic of the actual world

The question of impermanence

Chapter Seven: Personhood as Presencing

Introduction The concept of presencing

Dōgen’s stratification of presencing the role of the universal

Synchronic non-duality

the dialectic of presencing in Dōgen the dialectic of presencing in Nishida

Diachronic non-duality

the non-dual structure of impermanence presencing qua from the created to the creating identity and non-duality

Postscript: presencing is “what matters”

Notes Glossary of Japanese Terms Key to Texts by Dōgen and Nishida Works Cited Index

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