불교 안에서의 다원주의

• 영문명: Pluralism in Buddhism : Overcoming Essentialism and Nihilism
• 발행기관: 불교학연구회
• 저자명: 조윤호(Cho, Yoon-ho)
• 간행물 정보: 『불교학연구』제7호, 303~326쪽, 전체 24쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 불교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2003.12.31

영문 초록

This paper aims at tracing a pluralistic element in the Buddhist intellectual tradition, and suggesting the Buddhist model of ‘a limited pluralism’ that helps us to go beyond essentialism and to overcome a threat of nihilism. For this aim, the author opposes Buddhism against the Hindu traditional thoughts that have a essentialist and a nihilistic characteristic, and defines Buddhism as a philosophical attitude of pluralism. This is because Buddhism sees beings or phenomena including understanding through ‘beings within causal relations,’ namely, the unique way of thinking of dependent arising. Also this is because Buddhism neither absolutize nor universalize one’s own subjective judgment, and opens the possibilities of various understandings and judgments. Besides the middle path(madhyama pratipad), as an attitude not committing both moral scepticism and ontological nihilism, is a restraint mechanism for both a nihilistic and a dogmatic attitude, and is a Buddhist perspective on the problem of a limited pluralism.

목차

Ⅰ. 인도의 사유전통: 본질주의와 허무주의

Ⅱ. 본질주의에 대한 불교의 비판

Ⅲ. 허무주의의 극복

Ⅳ. 맺는 말

키워드

다원주의 보편주의 본질주의 허무주의 실증주의 개인윤리 중도 탈형이상학 pluralism universalism essentialism nihilism positivism objectivism postmetaphysics