Mystical consciousness : Western perspectives and dialogue with Japanese thinkers /
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Western philosophies of consciousness. Major contributions. Brentano
- Husserl
- Sartre
- Lonergan
- Complementary contributions. From intentionality to consciousness : Searle
- Degrees of consciousness : Crosby
- Further clarifications : Helminiak
- Affective side : Morelli
- Accounts of mystical consciousness. Forman on pure consciousness events
- Realm of transcendence according to Lonergan
- Moore on the "how" of consciousness
- Price on bare consciousness
- Granfield on the mystical difference
- Three classics. Plotinus : consciousness beyond consciousness. Grand worldview
- Intellect's share in the good
- Ordinary consciousness
- What happens beyond consciousness?
- No blackout and yet no self-consciousness
- Ecstasy, or enstasy?
- Eckhart : when consciousness becomes divine consciousness. Emptiness of the human intellect
- No awareness
- Nothingness
- Detached love without a why
- Is the soul equated with God?
- Soul's breakthrough to the Godhead
- Schleiermacher : consciousness as feeling. Feeling
- Prereflective and reflective consciousness
- Absolute dependence
- Three kinds of consciousness
- Dialogue with Zen philosophy. Western views of the self. Arguing against the self
- Arguing for the self
- Transcending the self
- Japanese views of the self. Suzuki
- Nishitani
- Western view of nothingness. Plotinus and Eckhart
- Hedger
- Nishitani as interpreter of Plotinus, Eckhart, and Heidegger
- Japanese views of nothingness. Nishitani's approach to nihilism
- Nishitani's characterization of "absolute nothingness"
- Hisamatsu's characterization of "oriental nothingness."