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Karma and Rebirth in the Stream of Thought and Life |
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Burley, Mikel
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| Source |
Philosophy East and West
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| Volume | v.64 n.4 |
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| Date | 2014.10 |
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| Pages | 965 - 982 |
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| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
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https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/
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| Location | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science, University of Leeds
m.m.burley@leeds.ac.uk |
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| Abstract | This essay explores the concepts of karma and rebirth in the light of some key themes from the later work of Wittgenstein. After clarifying what it means to “bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use” it is considered how certain Wittgenstein-influenced philosophers, notably İlham Dilman and D. Z. Phillips, have sought to recover the meaning of “soul” from metaphysical misappropriations by invoking Wittgenstein’s notion of a “picture” The sort of conceptual recovery involved in this task resembles, in some respects, the “demythologizing” and “psychologizing” approaches of certain interpreters of the doctrine of karma and rebirth, especially within the context of Buddhist studies. Illustrative examples of these approaches are compared and contrasted and discussed in relation to instances of individuals articulating their belief in karma and rebirth. On the basis of this discussion, it is concluded that the interpretive approaches in question fail to account for the sense of individual responsibility for one’s own present circumstances that is central to how talk of karma and rebirth frequently operates “in the stream of thought and life.” |
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| ISSN | 00318221 (P); 15291898 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1353/pew.2014.0079 |
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| Hits | 539 |
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| Created date | 2015.03.17 |
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| Modified date | 2019.05.17 |
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