Fw: [Buddha-l] Philosophy East & West

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

jkirk schreef:

> What a stimulating comparative article Ram Prasad has written. 
> Responding on
> the spur to one of his concluding remarks:
>
> "It may be that terms from non-western traditions will also become 
> keys of
> analysis in a future global tradition of thought,..."
>
> This strikes me as a creative idea in that I, at least, have never 
> come across the
> Buddhist concept of pratitya samutpada in any of the western 
> philosophy that
> I've read -- but I admit I've only read some of them.  Taking up that
> concept and the discourse surrounding it might supply a rich and 
> innovative
> point from which to develop the potential of philosophical 
> conversation between
> the European traditions and the Indian ones, in the formal contexts 
> that I think
> Ram Prasad refers to.  P-S is not a typical "western" philosophical 
> notion--I've
> always found it to be quite unique in providing a really different 
> slant on questions
> of reality (or Reality).
>
Hi Joanna,
good to read from you. The other day I heard myself say during a 
conversation that P-S was not unlike the Kantian transcendental 
analysis. I'm not convinced yet, but I feel somehow that a comparison 
could be useful. Maybe once when I have enough time I 'll start to read 
Kant again.

-- 


Erik


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