BHASKAR'S PHILOSOPHY AS ANTI-ANTHROPISM A Comparative Study of Eastern and Western Thought.

Autor: SEO MINGYU
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Zdroj: Journal of Critical Realism; 2008, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p5-28, 24p, 1 Diagram
Abstrakt: This article aims to contribute to the understanding of Roy Bhaskar's philosophical evolution from critical realism to the philosophy of meta-Reality. Following Bhaskar's own terminology, I define his intellectual journey as the 'identification of dualism and duality within non-duality' by proposing that anti-anthropism plays a key role in the developmental consistency of his system from critical realism via dialectical critical realism to meta-Reality. For this purpose, I compare Bhaskar's philosophy with Andrew Collier's theory of human rationality and spiritual emancipation based on Christianity and Tu Wei-Ming's anthropocosmic understanding of human beings and nature based on Confucianism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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