TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liberman,Kenneth
TI  - Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture: an Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning
SN  - 9780742576865
AV  - B5233.T53 L53 2007
U1  - 184.1 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
KW  - Philosophy, Tibetan
KW  - Buddhist philosophy
KW  - Philosophie tibétaine
KW  - Philosophie bouddhique
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Buddhist
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index; Acknowledgments --; Foreword; Harold Garfinkel --; pt. 1; A postcolonial inquiry into Tibetan dialectics --; 1; Orientalism and Tibetological praxis --; 2; Ethnomethodology and the retrieval of ordinary society --; 3; The organization of reasoning in the Tibetian philosophical debates --; pt. 2; Philosophical praxis in the Tibetan academy --; 4; Organizing the objectivity of the discourse : dialectics and communication --; 5; Reasons as a public activity --; 6; Rhymes and reason : reason as the in vivo, concerted work of Tibetan philosophers --; 7; Strategies in Tibetan philosophical debates --; pt. 3; A sociology of reasoning --; 8; Using reasons : capabilities of forma analysis --; 9; Some betrayals of formal analysis --; Bibliography --; Index
N2  - Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has missed these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings these dynamic disputations to life for the modern reader through a richly detailed, turn-by-turn analysis of the monks' formal philosophical reasoning. He argues that Tibetan Buddhists deliberately organize their debates into formal structures that both empower and constrain thinking, skillfully using logic as an interactional tool to organize their
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