Ivanhoe / Flanagan / Harrison The Oneness Hypothesis

Beyond the Boundary of Self
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54463-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten, EPUB

The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. This anthology explores the oneness hypothesis through East Asian and Western thought as well as sociology, evolutionary theory, and cognitive neuroscience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ivanhoe, Philip

Flanagan, Owen

Harrison, Victoria

Schwitzgebel, Eric

Sarkissian, Hagop

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baxter, Donald L. M.

Blum, Lawrence

Clark, Stephen R. L.

Cokelet, Bradford

Garfield, Jay L.

Harrison, Victoria

Hess, Kendy M.

Ho, Cho Geung

Jiang, Tao

Kittay, Eva Feder

Nichols, Shaun

Putilin, Dimitri

Slater, Michael R.

Strohminger, Nina

Swann, William B.

Talaifar, Sanaz

Tiwald, Justin

Unno, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Humanistische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Religionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Conventions
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Philip J. Ivanhoe, Owen Flanagan, Victoria Harrison, Eric Schwitzgebel, Hagop Sarkissian
1. Oneness: A Big History Perspective
Victoria S. Harrison
2. Oneness and Its Discontent: Contesting Ren in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Tao Jiang
3. One Alone and Many
Stephen R. L. Clark
4. Oneness, Aspects, and the Neo-Confucians
Donald L. M. Baxter
5. One-to-One Fellow Feeling, Universal Identification and Oneness, and Group Solidarities
Lawrence Blum
6. The Relationality and the Normativity of An Ethic of Care
Eva Feder Kittay
7. Oneness and Narrativity: A Comparative Case Study
Mark Unno
8. Kant, Buddhism, and Self-Centered Vice
Bradford Cokelet
9. Fractured Wholes: Corporate Agents and Their Members
Kendy M. Hess
10. Religious Faith, Self-Unification, and Human Flourishing in James and Dewey
Michael R. Slater
11. The Self and the Ideal Human Being in Eastern and Western Philosophical Traditions: Two Types of “Being a Valuable Person”
Cho Geung Ho
12. Hallucinating Oneness: Is Oneness True or Just a Positive Metaphysical Illusion?
Owen Flanagan
13. Episodic Memory and Oneness
Jay Garfield, Shaun Nichols, and Nina Strohminger
14. Confucius and the Superorganism
Hagop Sarkissian
15. Death, Self, and Oneness in the Incomprehensible Zhuangzi
Eric Schwitzgebel
16. Identity Fusion: The Union of Personal and Social Selves
Sanaz Talaifar and William B. Swann, Jr.
17. Tribalism and Universalism: Reflections and Scientific Evidence
Dimitri Putilin
18. Two Notions of Empathy and Oneness
Justin Tiwald

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Philip J. Ivanhoe is Chair Professor of East Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religion and director of the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy at City University of Hong Kong.

Owen J. Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and codirector of the Center for Comparative Philosophy at Duke University, where he also holds appointments in psychology and neuroscience.

Victoria S. Harrison is professor of philosophy at the University of Macau.

Hagop Sarkissian is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the City University of New York, Baruch College, and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Eric Schwitzgebel is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.