http://www.dharmacafe.com/index.php/philosophy-gnosis/ en billstranger@mchsi.com Copyright 2008 2008-01-06T21:27:00-08:00 http://www.dharmacafe.com/index.php/philosophy-gnosis/article/reason-and-religion-irremediably-incompatible-bedfellows/ http://www.dharmacafe.com/index.php/philosophy-gnosis/article/reason-and-religion-irremediably-incompatible-bedfellows/#When:21:27:00Z Like the poet e.e. cummings, floyd merriell writes his name in the lower case to stress the arbitrariness and non-necessity of our egoic self-identification. That humility is conjoined to one of the most interesting intellects in American letters today. In his many books, merrell has demonstrated how the obscure science of semiotics—especially as developed by the great American philosopher C.S. Peirce—can play a fundamental role in developing the emerging new paradigm of an evolving, self-organizating, irreducibly interdependent universe. Here we present merrell’s extended essay on the paradoxical nature of religious truth. 2008-01-06T21:27:00-08:00 http://www.dharmacafe.com/index.php/philosophy-gnosis/article/tanabe-hajimes-philosophy-as-metanoetics/ http://www.dharmacafe.com/index.php/philosophy-gnosis/article/tanabe-hajimes-philosophy-as-metanoetics/#When:06:56:00Z Tanabe Hajime, a founding member of Japan’s famed Kyoto School of Philosophy, studied under two giants of twentieth century philosophy, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger (the latter’s own philosophy was likely influenced by Tanabe’s Buddhist views). “Philosophy as Metanoetics” was developed from lectures the author delivered in Kyoto during Japan’s disastrous war with America, Britain, and China, the shadows of which fall heavily across its pages. In this “appreciation and celebration” of Tanabe’s principal work, Steven M. Rosen (whose own pioneering writings are laying a foundation for a new non-dual philosophy of science) identifies key elements of Tanabe’s paradox-drenched philosophy and pauses to question whether the Buddhist notion of the relative self needs to be supplemented by a more dynamic vision of absolute being such as is found in some Western phenomenological thinkers. 2007-11-21T06:56:00-08:00 http://www.dharmacafe.com/index.php/philosophy-gnosis/article/the-most-deeply-distorted-and-misunderstood-intuition-of-all/ http://www.dharmacafe.com/index.php/philosophy-gnosis/article/the-most-deeply-distorted-and-misunderstood-intuition-of-all/#When:19:56:00Z 2007-05-31T19:56:00-08:00