1 Nothingness In ASIAN Philosophy Editors: JeeLoo Liu, California State University, Fullerton Douglas L. Berger, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
i CONTENTS CONTENTS... I CONTRIBUTORS... III INTRODUCTION... 1 PART I. EMPTINESS IN BRĀHMIṆICAL AND EARLY BUDDHIST TRADITIONS... 36 CHAPTER 1.THE UNAVOIDABLE VOID: NON- EXISTENCE, ABSENCE, AND EMPTINESS. 37 Arindam Chakrabarti CHAPTER 2. SEMANTICS OF NOTHINGNESS: BHARTṚHARI S PHILOSOPHY OF NEGATION... 75 Sthaneshwar Timalsina CHAPTER 3. MADHYAMAKA, NIHILISM AND THE EMPTINESS OF EMPTINESS... 108 Jay L. Garfield CHAPTER 4. IN SEARCH OF THE SEMANTICS OF EMPTINESS... 126 Koji Tanaka CHAPTER 5. MADHYAMAKA EMPTINESS AND BUDDHIST ETHICS... 142 Mark Siderits CHAPTER 6. EMPTINESS AND VIOLENCE: AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER OF NĀGĀRJUNA WITH DERRIDA AND LEVINAS... 166 Chen- kuo Lin CHAPTER 7. SPEAKING OF THE INEFFABLE...... 186 Graham Priest CHAPTER 8. EMPTINESS AS SUBJECT- OBJECT UNITY: SENGZHAO ON THE WAY THINGS TRULY ARE... 208 Chien- hsing Ho CHAPTER 9. ON NOTHING IN PARTICULAR: DELIMITING NOT- BEING FOR KNOWING S SAKE... 233 Rajam Raghunathan CHAPTER 10. THE COGNITION OF NONEXISTENT OBJECTS: FIVE YOGĀCĀRA ARGUMENTS... 256 Zhihua Yao PART II. NOTHINGNESS IN EARLY AND MODERN EAST ASIAN TRADITIONS... 281
ii CHAPTER 11. THE NOTION OF WU OR NON- BEING AS THE ROOT OF THE UNIVERSE AND A GUIDE FOR LIFE... 282 Xiaogan Liu CHAPTER 12. THE RELATION OF NOTHING AND SOMETHING: TWO CLASSICAL CHINESE READINGS OF DAO DE JING 11... 306 Douglas L. Berger CHAPTER 13. WAS THERE SOMETHING IN NOTHINGNESS? THE DEBATE ON THE PRIMORDIAL STATE BETWEEN DAOISM AND NEO- CONFUCIANISM... 331 JeeLoo Liu CHAPTER 14. HEART- FASTING, FORGETTING, AND USING THE HEART LIKE A MIRROR: APPLIED EMPTINESS IN THE ZHUANGZI... 356 Chris Fraser CHAPTER 15. EMBODYING NOTHINGNESS AND THE IDEAL OF THE AFFECTLESS SAGE IN DAOIST PHILOSOPHY... 384 Alan K. L. Chan CHAPTER 16. NOTHINGNESS IN KOREAN BUDDHISM: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST NIHILISM... 411 Halla Kim CHAPTER 17. ZEN, PHILOSOPHY, AND EMPTINESS: DŌGEN AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF CONCEPTS... 437 Gereon Kopf CHAPTER 18. ANONTOLOGY AND THE ISSUE OF BEING AND NOTHING IN KITARŌ NISHIDA... 466 John W.M. Krummel CHAPTER 19. TANABE S DIALECTIC OF SPECIES AS ABSOLUTE NOTHINGNESS... 501 Makoto Ozaki CHAPTER 20. NISHITANI ON EMPTINESS AND NOTHINGNESS... 528 Yasuo Deguchi BIBLIOGRAPHY... 571
iii CONTRIBUTORS Douglas Berger is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Arindam Chakrabarti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Alan K. L. Chan is Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, and Toh Puan Mahani Idris Daim Chair Professor of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Yasuo Deguchi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kyoto University, Japan. Chris Fraser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Jay L. Garfield is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at National University of Singapore, Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Recurrent Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Central University of Tibetan Studies. Chien-hsing Ho is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Nanhua University, Taiwan. Halla Kim is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Gereon Kopf is Professor of Religion at Luther College, Visiting Lecturer at Saitama University, Visiting Researcher at the International Research Center for Philosophy of Tōyō University, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. John Krummel is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. Chen-kuo Lin is Professor of Philosophy at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. JeeLoo Liu is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton.
iv Xiaogan Liu is Chair Professor at Renmin University, China and the Founding and Honorary Director of the Research Center for Chinese Philosophy and Culture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Makoto Ozaki is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Sanyo Gakuen University, Japan. Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, and Arché Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Rajam Raghunathan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Mark Siderits is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Illinois State University and Seoul National University. Koji Tanaka is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Sthaneshwar Timalsina is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University. Zhihua Yao is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.