The Bodhisattva's Brain : Buddhism Naturalized /
Flanagan, Owen, Jr., 1949-
The Bodhisattva's Brain : Buddhism Naturalized / Owen Flanagan. - 1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages) -
"A Bradford Book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Bodhisattva's Brain -- The Color of Happiness -- Buddhist Epistemology and Science -- Selfless Persons -- Being No-Self and Being Nice -- Virtue and Happiness -- Introduction : Buddhism Naturalized -- An Essay in Comparative Neurophilosophy -- Buddhism as a Natural Philosophy -- Postscript : Cosmopolitanism and Comparative Philosophy.
Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge? If we are material beings living in a material world--and all the scientific evidence suggests that we are--then we must find existential meaning, if there is such a thing, in this physical world. We must cast our lot with the natural rather than the supernatural. Many Westerners with spiritual (but not religious) inclinations are attracted to Buddhism--almost as a kind of moral-mental hygiene. But, as Owen Flanagan points out in The Bodhisattva's Brain, Buddhism is hardly naturalistic. In The Bodhisattva's Brain, Flanagan argues that it is possible to discover in Buddhism a rich, empirically responsible philosophy that could point us to one path of human flourishing. Some claim that neuroscience is in the process of validating Buddhism empirically, but Flanagan's naturalized Buddhism does not reduce itself to a brain scan showing happiness patterns. "Buddhism naturalized," as Flanagan constructs it, offers instead a fully naturalistic and comprehensive philosophy, compatible with the rest of knowledge--a way of conceiving of the human predicament, of thinking about meaning for finite material beings living in a material world. --
English.
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22573/ctt58drct JSTOR 8FDF24E0-8622-4195-96F2-E94907DC0042 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 7414 MIT Press 9780262298179 MIT Press
Buddhism--Psychology.
Buddhist philosophy.
Bouddhisme--Psychologie.
Philosophie bouddhique.
RELIGION--Buddhism--General.
PSYCHOLOGY--Cognitive Psychology.
Buddhism--Psychology
Buddhist philosophy
PHILOSOPHY/General COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
Electronic books.
BQ4570.P76 / F48 2011eb
294.3/3615
The Bodhisattva's Brain : Buddhism Naturalized / Owen Flanagan. - 1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages) -
"A Bradford Book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Bodhisattva's Brain -- The Color of Happiness -- Buddhist Epistemology and Science -- Selfless Persons -- Being No-Self and Being Nice -- Virtue and Happiness -- Introduction : Buddhism Naturalized -- An Essay in Comparative Neurophilosophy -- Buddhism as a Natural Philosophy -- Postscript : Cosmopolitanism and Comparative Philosophy.
Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge? If we are material beings living in a material world--and all the scientific evidence suggests that we are--then we must find existential meaning, if there is such a thing, in this physical world. We must cast our lot with the natural rather than the supernatural. Many Westerners with spiritual (but not religious) inclinations are attracted to Buddhism--almost as a kind of moral-mental hygiene. But, as Owen Flanagan points out in The Bodhisattva's Brain, Buddhism is hardly naturalistic. In The Bodhisattva's Brain, Flanagan argues that it is possible to discover in Buddhism a rich, empirically responsible philosophy that could point us to one path of human flourishing. Some claim that neuroscience is in the process of validating Buddhism empirically, but Flanagan's naturalized Buddhism does not reduce itself to a brain scan showing happiness patterns. "Buddhism naturalized," as Flanagan constructs it, offers instead a fully naturalistic and comprehensive philosophy, compatible with the rest of knowledge--a way of conceiving of the human predicament, of thinking about meaning for finite material beings living in a material world. --
English.
9780262298179 0262298171 1283258625 9781283258623 9786613258625 6613258628 9780262525206 0262525208
22573/ctt58drct JSTOR 8FDF24E0-8622-4195-96F2-E94907DC0042 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 7414 MIT Press 9780262298179 MIT Press
Buddhism--Psychology.
Buddhist philosophy.
Bouddhisme--Psychologie.
Philosophie bouddhique.
RELIGION--Buddhism--General.
PSYCHOLOGY--Cognitive Psychology.
Buddhism--Psychology
Buddhist philosophy
PHILOSOPHY/General COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
Electronic books.
BQ4570.P76 / F48 2011eb
294.3/3615