The Heart of Buddhist Philosophy: #REF!

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Subject Index Absolute,S, 6, 45, 49, 50, 66, 67, 79 Abstraction, 18-19,26; and Ancient Greeks, 39, 42, 43; conservative function of, 7; and forms of forgetting, 7/ Guenther on, 67; Hartshorne on, 23-24; Hegel on, 44; as not freely chosen by individuals, 28; philosophers as critics of, 27; Ramanan on, 2; return from, 32-33, 111; the self as, 37; in Western philosophy, 40, 45, 47, 49, 50-53; Wordsworth on, 44. See also Belief systems; Feeling; Individualized experience; Language ; Momentary now; Original experience; Pure experience; Quality Advaita Vedanta, 65, 66, 67, 75, 76 Aesthetic foundations of the world, 2, 8, 10, 11/ and Hartshorne , 109, Ill; and nirvana, 1; and Peirce, 53; Whitehead on, I, 83. See also Concreteness; Individualized experience; Momentary now; Quality Alienation, 12, 47-52, 55-57, 85-86, 109 American civilization: and discovery of concreteness in life, 31-32; and search for new cultural identity, 4-6 American process philosophy: as agent of a new American revolution , 27; and anticipation by philosophies of the West, 25; and experience, 32-33; and Dewey, 1-5; as result of concurrence of three events, 24; and return of individuals from abstraction, 32-33, Ill; summarized , 23-25, 28, 30-31; and Whitehead, 1-5. See also Process philosophy Analytical philosophy: broader scope of, in Buddhism, 53-54; late rise of, in Western thought, 52-53 Anattii (denial of bifurcating substantial self), ix, 4, 23-24; as affirmed in Buddhism, 68; Hartshorne on, 109; Nakamura on, 68; Naranjo on, 125. See also Simyatil; Svabhilva Az1.guttara-Nikaya, 17 Anicca (transitoriness of life), 62, 114. See also Momentariness; Process philosophy Anxiety: in Kant, 48; and relation to abstractions, 10, 48, 91, 114 Aristotelian-Thomist thought, xii; concept of God in, 40-41; and 183 184 Subject Index Aristotelian-Thomist thought (continued) lost teachings of Aristotle, 21 Asceticism: true and false forms of, 82-83 Assumptive-form world, 42; as enemy of civilization, 130-31 Atheism: of the future, 91) in the West, 85-86 Athens: intolerance in, 42-43 Authoritarian thinking, 17, 18, 19,48,90 Awareness, 11, 18, 33, 58-59, 72, 130; and Nagarjuna, 67, 69; in Wieman, 94. See also Concreteness ; Momentariness; Pure experience Being: as fixed, 3, 40, 49, 65, 78, 107; and Heidegger, 35, 55; and simyata, 66 Belief systems, 4, 5, 6, 48, 116; modem science on, 114; Peirce on, 26, 98, 113, lIS, 119; Whitehead on, 114} Wieman on, 93-94,96-97 Bodhagaya, 16, 63 Bodhisattva, 31, 62, 71-72, 75-76, 95,109 Brain: early evolutionary stage of, 132; Seizo ahe on, 117-18; and split-brain research, 117; Tadanobu Tsunoda on, 117 Buddhism: absence of absolutes in, 17, 67} absence of mandatory creeds in, 84; affirmative nature of, 9, IS} aims of, 11-17, 82, 83-84; appeal of, Ill} asymmetrical temporal view of, 7778 ; creative becoming in, 88, 108; democratic nature of, 67, 84; and Dewey, 2-6, 15-16/ Einstein on, 122; empirical emphasis of, 12-15,83-84, 96-97; as first process philosophy , 9, 12, 13, Hindu hostility toward, 64-65, and idolatries, 85; and the JudeoChristian tradition, 22; and need for religion, 16; as new human frontier, 6, 14, 17-18, 77; nonauthoritarian nature of, 17-18} as oldest system of orientation and devotion, 5) as philosophy, 9; practical bent of, 1; primary task of, 15, as religion , 9, revival in nineteenthcentury India of, 66; and suffering , 12-14, 82, 84, 87-91,97; and Whitehead, 2-6, 15-16. See also Anattii; Anicca; Dukkha; Enlightenment; Nirvana; PIadtya -samutpada; Simyata Buddhist-Christian encounter, xi; Hartshorne on, 106-10) Langdon Gilkey on, 82; Wieman on, 98 Buddhist-impacted culture: and language, 118-20; modem science at home in, 117, 119 Causation: deterministic concept of, 38, 40; Hartshorne on, 88 Certainty, 45; as rooted in the flow of quality, 93, 119 Change,S, 6, 20, 22, 23, 3D, 41, 42,66,70 Christian orientation: crisis in, 85-87; Poussin on, xi; and Royce's "beloved community/' 22, 36} and the Unmoved Mover, 40; and Wieman, 96-98; Wittgenstein on, 83 Civilization: base of, in community of feelings, 28} Buddhism's view of, 130-35; Hegel on, 129; meaning of, 128-29; Peirce on, 25-26; problem of, 127, roots of, in concrete flow of quality, 86, 134-40; and science, 11415 , Spengler on, 128; Western form of, 42, 44-45; Whitehead on, 130, 134 Cognition: Bergson on, 37; as dependent faculty, 37) Des...