Nietzsche and the Buddha: different lives, same ideas : (how Nietsche may yet become the West's own Buddha)
"This book examines Nietzsche's own claim that he is the 'Buddha of the west'. A close reading of his texts shows substantial similarities with the Buddha's teachings, suggesting a potential basis and a potentially promising future for a Western Buddhism that would be based...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Peter Lang
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900
/ Buddha 563 BC-483 BC
/ Philosophy
/ Buddhism
B Buddha 563 BC-483 BC / Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900 |
| Further subjects: | B
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
B Buddhism Doctrines B Philosophy, Comparative B Buddhist Philosophy B Buddhism ; Doctrines B Philosophy and religion B Gautama Buddha B Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm |
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| Summary: | "This book examines Nietzsche's own claim that he is the 'Buddha of the west'. A close reading of his texts shows substantial similarities with the Buddha's teachings, suggesting a potential basis and a potentially promising future for a Western Buddhism that would be based on Nietzsche's philosophy. The book first provides a brief comparative biography of Nietzsche and the Buddha and then a review of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path and of what there is in Nietzsche's writings that is his equivalent to those teachings. While the West often looks to neuroscience to validate the Buddhist teachings and practices, this book suggests it would be better to study Nietzsche's thought to discover not only validation for Buddhist teachings but the very foundation of a 'Buddhism' that is of the West, by the West, and for the West"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 273-277 |
| ISBN: | 1433166607 |