INTEGRATIVE DIALOGUE AS A PATH TO UNIVERSALISM:
THE CASE OF BUBER AND ZHUANGZI
INTEGRATIVE DIALOGUE AS A PATH TO UNIVERSALISM:
THE CASE OF BUBER AND ZHUANGZI
Author(s): Robert Elliott AllinsonSubject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Buber; Zhuangzi; Huntington; comparative philosophy; clash of civilizations; Ijing; The Book of Changes; integrative dialogue; Dao; Ch’an; Zen; the Baal-Shem-Tov; Yin and Yang
Summary/Abstract: I argue that it is through an integrative dialogue based on the Ijing (Book of Chang-es) model of cooperative and cyclical change rather than a Marxist or neo-Marxist dia-lectical model of change based upon the Hegelian model of conflict and replacement that promises the greatest possibility of peaceful coexistence.1 As a case study of a dia-logue between civilizations, I utilize both a mythical and an historical encounter betwe-en Martin Buber, representing the West, and Zhuangzi, representing the East. I show that despite the vast temporal, historic, linguistic and cultural differences, that the dialo-gue between Zhuangzi and Buber is complementary and not adversarial.
Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 87-104
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English
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