Look at the Parallels between Zen Tradition and between Heidegger’s Thinking Cover Image

Žvilgsnis Į Dzen Ir M. Heideggerio Mąstysenos Paraleles
Look at the Parallels between Zen Tradition and between Heidegger’s Thinking

Author(s): Žilvinas Vareikis
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Social Philosophy, Existentialism, East Asian Philosophy
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: Heidegger; Japanese philosophy; zen philosophy; Eurocentrism; interculturality; spontaneity;

Summary/Abstract: The Japanese zen tradition and in the Heidegger’s philosophy delicately interconnect with the consideration on the external nature and the contemplation of the human existence. The author relates Heidegger’s philosophical concept of Gelassenheit with the Japanese practices of zoan and koan. The author also compares the totality of nature in the zen tradition with the Heidegger’s Sein and with his late oriental traditions studies. On the other hand, the author opposes Japanese cultural logic, spontaneity, and transitivity to the Heidegger’s abstract thought and to the German philosopher’s inclination to the Eurocentric reflections.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 86
  • Page Range: 188-194
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Lithuanian