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Charles Hartshorne characterizes this book as an eloquent and insightful presentation of the claims of Buddhism to the attention of thoughtful people in this country, especially those aware of the widely influential process philosophy and process theology of Whitehead.”
Stressing Buddhism as opposed to Western philosophy, Jacobson concentrates on the theme of the self-corrective nature of Buddhism, ending with a strong emphasis on self-surpassing Oneness.” Introducing the reader to the major perspectives of Buddhist philosophy, he notes that the more fully awakened we become to the moments that are the real event, the more we will recognize how much we need each other to enrich these nows, and the less tempted we will be to serve that abstract and false self.”
Because everything on earth is a part of everything else, an organic whole, even the most enlightened self-interest is irrational and destructive. The rational person seeks to infuse the life we live with the novel qualities of each now.” The rational person further struggles to free himself from the one-sided, self-justifying cultural cocoons that have dwarfed and warped his awareness and crippled cross-cultural communications,” according to Jacobson. Buddhism offers the only alternative to the enervated economic, political, diplomatic, and military measures presently used to cope with underlying disaster.”
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Nolan Pliny Jacobson, author of Buddhism: The Religion of Analysis (Southern Illinois University Press), is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Winthrop College in South Carolina.
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- PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0809310716
- ISBN 13 9780809310715
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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