The Logic of Unity: The Discovery of Zero and Emptiness in Prajñāpāramitā Thought

by Hosaku Matsuo

Book Overview

This clear and elegant translation reveals how a modern Japanese thinker dared to show the basic flaw of Western epistemology. In unmasking this limitation, Matsuo presents an Eastern view of a unified experience, and provides an epistemological basis for comparative philosophy.

Matsuo notes that while early Greek thought began by focusing on the right counsel ("Know thyself"), since then Western thought has been influenced by empiricistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887063926
• ISBN13: 9780887063923
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.