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A Spiritual Evolutionism: Lü Cheng, Aesthetic Revolution, and the Rise of a Buddhism-Inflected Social Ontology in Modern China |
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Zu, Jessica Xiaomin (著)
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Journal of Global Buddhism
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| Volume | v.22 n.1 |
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| Date | 2021 |
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| Pages | 49 - 75 |
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| Publisher | Journal of Global Buddhism |
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https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/institutes-departements-and-research-centres/department-for-the-study-of-religions/
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| Location | Lucerne, Switzerland |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Yogācāra; evolutionism; Buddhist soteriology; aesthetics; May Fourth New Culture Movement; anti-realism; social philosophy |
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| Abstract | This study examines the early career of the renowned Buddhologist Lü Cheng as an aspiring revolutionary. My findings reveal that Lü’s rhetoric of “aesthetic revolution” both catapulted him into the center of the New Culture Movement and popularized a Buddhist idealism—Yogācāra (consciousness-only school)—among thinkers who sought alternatives social theories.
Lü aimed to refute social Darwinism and scientific materialism, which portray humans as mechanized individuals bereft of moral agency. He theorized an anti-realist social ontology, i.e., a social oneness grounded in intersubjective resonances, from which subjective interiority and objective exteriority arise.
Lü turned to Buddhism to further his revolution. Buddhist soteriology supplied powerful tools for theorizing the social: The doctrine of no-self refuted philosophical solipsism and curtailed individualism; dependent-origination refashioned social evolution as collective spiritual progress. Lü’s spiritual-evolutionism-cum-social-ontology broadens the field of Buddhist philosophy that has a long-standing blind spot on social philosophies developed in the Global South. |
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| Table of contents | Revolution of the Mind-Heart and Lü’s Debut on the May Fourth Stage 53
The Social Function of Aesthetics: From Empathy to Intersubjectivity 56
The Social Function of Translation: Assembling an Intersubjective Oneness 58
Against Nature Piety: Enchanting Social Relations with Aesthetic Empathy 60
The Rise of Moralized Bergsonism and "Scientific" Yogācāra 62
Moral Agency Lies Neither Inside nor Outside 65
The Birth of a Spiritual Evolutionism 69
Acknowledgement 70 |
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| ISSN | 15276457 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.5281/zenodo.4727558 |
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| Hits | 87 |
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| Created date | 2022.03.04 |
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| Modified date | 2022.03.04 |
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