Code: 05294115

Between Certainty and Finitude

Name: Between Certainty and Finitude
Brand: LIT Verlag
SKU: 05294115
Price: 25.62 EUR
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Author: Aucke D Forsten
ISBN: 9783825898137

by Aucke D Forsten

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
Publisher: LIT Verlag, 2006
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The author aims to confront two ways of approaching an Indo-Buddhist text with one another. The first is the historico-philological method, which takes the Cartesian ideal of certainty as its starting point. The second approach follows the lead of the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. This approach assumes that all human understanding is finite. In this light, it raises questions such as: what are the preliminary assumptions with which a buddhologist addresses a buddhist text? In analogy with these two ways of looking at a text, the book is divided into two parts. Part One is a historico-philological study of the Sanskrit compound sva-citta-dr'sya-matra as it is represented in the second chapter of the Indo-Buddhist text Lankavatarasutra (fifth century). Part Two then examines the unquestioned acceptances of this buddhological research from a philosophical point of view. The book opens up an entirely new perspective on methodological problems concerning any study of an alien culture.