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Kenosis, Dynamic Śūnyatā and Weak Thought: Abe Masao and Gianni Vattimo |
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著者 |
Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten (著)
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掲載誌 |
Asian Philosophy: An International Journal of the Philosophical Traditions of the East
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巻号 | v.25 n.4 |
出版年月日 | 2015 |
ページ | 358 - 383 |
出版者 | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
資料の種類 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
言語 | 英文=English |
抄録 | The verb κενόω (kenos) means ‘to empty’ and St. Paul uses the word ἐκένωσεν (ekenosen) writing that ‘Jesus made himself nothing’ and ‘emptied himself’. Śūnyatā is a Buddhist concept most commonly translated as emptiness, nothingness, or nonsubstantiality. An important kenosis–śūnyatā discussion was sparked by Abe Masao’s paper ‘Kenotic God and Dynamic Śūnyatā’ (in 1984). I confront the kenosis–śūnyatā theme with Vattimo’s kenosis-based philosophy of religion. For Vattimo, kenosis refers to ‘secularization’: when strong structures such as the essence and the fulfilment of the Christian message are weakened. Parallels between Abe’s and Vattimo’s thought will be demonstrated with regard to themes current in East–West comparative philosophy: reality and emptiness, the overcoming of metaphysics, the position of the Self, the human and the divine, and the relationship between science and religion. The latter point is particularly timely because since the 1990s religious fundamentalism has pushed forward a curious ‘religion as science’ hypothesis. Both thinkers’ relationship with the idea of Nothingness will also be explored. Finally, Abe’s interpretation of śūnyatā will be presented as a form of ‘weak thought’. Both Abe and Vattimo design a religious attitude based on negativity without falling into the trap of anti-religious nihilism. Abe’s negation of the subject, which leads to a pluralism of beings, can very well be compared with Vattimo’s paradoxical ‘credere di credere’ (to believe to believe), through which Vattimo describes the attitude of an ego that has lost its own subjectivity. The person who does not believe but only ‘believes to believe’ is a sort of non-ego. I show that a ‘half-theistic’ way of thinking God based on kenosis can work in the service of plurality because it deconstructs the principle of reality based on faith and ‘fullness’.
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ISSN | 09552367 (P); 14692961 (E) |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2015.1103834 |
ヒット数 | 97 |
作成日 | 2022.12.26 |
更新日期 | 2022.12.26 |

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