Universal Liberation
Taixu ๅคช่ was one of the most influential thinkers of modern East-Asian Buddhism. In 1904, at the age of 14, he became a monk at Xiวo Jiวhuรก temple ๅฐไน่ฏๅฏบ in Suzhou, China. Soon after, he developed an interest in modern science, left-wing politics, and Buddhist reform. A decade later (partially due to changing political circumstances) he had himself sealed in a cell in a monastery to study Buddhist scripture and philosophy. After he left his cell in 1917, he revived a Maitreya Pure Land cult, but also continued working for the modernization and revival of Buddhism in China under the...
Some Remarks on the Notion of โCartesian Dualismโ in Continental Philosophy
In the beginning of the 20th century, Western philosophy split into two main schools, analytic and continental philosophy, that โ barring exceptions โ neither read nor understand each other. My own work and influences are mostly within, or closely affiliated with, the analytic school, but occasionally I read some continental philosophy (as well as some non-Western philosophy). One peculiar term I encountered several times in such reading across scholastic boundaries is โCartesian dualismโ, most recently in Saito Koheiโs Marx in the Anthropocene. To be more precise, it is not the term itself that struck me as peculiar โ youโll find...