Evil and/or/as the good : omnicentrism, intersubjectivity and value paradox in Tiantai Buddhist thought / Brook Ziporyn.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-464) and index.

Machine generated contents note: I Introduction: The Question -- The Problem of Antithetical Values 2/ A Value-Free Universe? i8/ -- Antinomianism? 20 -- 2 Value, Intersubjectivity, and Holism: Philosophical Parameters -- and the Chinese Background -- Part I: Holism-Definitions and Distinctions 27 -- The Center 3o/ Intersubjectivity and Chinese Holisms 41/ -- Object as Focus and Field 50/ Implications of Unicentrism, -- Oligocentrism, and Omnicentrism 55 -- Part II: Value 68 -- Speculative Ground for a General Theory of Value Paradox 69/ -- Inverted Pyramid of Instrumental and Ultimate Values 78/ -- Paradox in Chinese Rhetoric 85/ Applications of Holism in -- Early Chinese Thought and Their Axiological Consequences 95 -- 3 Value and Anti-value in Indian Buddhism -- 4 Tiantai Basics: Omnicentric Holism -- Part I: The Basics 114 -- The Four Teachings and the Three Truths 114/ The Three Tracks 135/ -- The Ten Thusnesses 137/ The Ten Realms 138/ The Transcendental -- Marvels, Relative and Absolute 140/ Opening the Provisional to Reveal -- the Real (Transformative Recontextualization) 145/ The Three -- Thousand Quiddites Inherently Entailed in Each Moment of -- Experience / Inherent Entailment 159 -- Part II: Transitional Historical Considerations of Later Tiantai 170 -- The Huayan School and "Nature-Origination" 170/ The Suratigama -- Sutra and the "Pure Mind" of Early Chan 176/ Zhanran's Reassertion -- of Tiantai 186/ Toward the Shanjia/Shanwai Schism 195 -- 5 Intersubjectivity in the Tiantai Tradition as Understood by Zhili I99 -- Self-praxis as Identical to the Teaching and Transformation of -- Others 201/ Stimulus and Response (Ganying) 203/ The -- Pervasiveness of the Intersubjective 208/ The Ultimacy of -- Intersubjectivity as a Focus of the Shanjia/Shanwai Debate 218 -- 6 Value and Anti-value in Tiantai Thought 240 -- Part I: Good and Evil in Zhiyi and Zhanran 240 -- Value-Paradoxical Consequences of Tiantai Upiya Theory 241/ -- The Moral Benefits of Inherent Evil and Zhiyi's Critique of Anti- -- nomianism 251/ Zhanran on Inherent Evil and Practiced Good 261 -- Part II: Zhili's Concept of Value Paradox 270 -- The Intersubjective Underpinning of Ineradicable and All-pervading -- Evil as Identical with the Good 272/ The Ultimacy of the Dung -- Beetle 295/ Comparison to Zhiyi and Zhanran 306/ Comparison -- to the Shanwai 312/ Objections and Responses 323/ Zhili's -- Practice of Evil 329 -- 7 What's So Good About Evil: Conclusions and Implications 344 -- Metaphysical Implications 351/ Episremological Implications 358/ -- Ethical Motivations and Implications 361 -- Notes 387 -- Bibliography 455 -- Glossary 465 -- Index 471.