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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452486203321

Autore

Liberman Kenneth <1948->

Titolo

Dialectical practice in Tibetan philosophical culture [[electronic resource] ] : an ethnomethodological inquiry into formal reasoning / / Kenneth Liberman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007, c2004

ISBN

1-299-45333-3

0-7425-7686-8

Edizione

[1st paperback ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Disciplina

184/.1

Soggetti

Buddhism - Social aspects

Buddhist philosophy

Debates and debating - Religious aspects - Buddhism

Philosophy, Tibetan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Part I: A Postcolonial Inquiry into Tibetan Dialectics; 1. Orientalism and Tibetological Praxis; 2. Ethnomethodology and the Retrieval of Ordinary Society; 3. The Organization of Reasoning in Tibetan Philosophical Debates; Part II: Philosophical Praxis in the Tibetan Academy; 4. Organizing the Objectivity of the Discourse: Dialectics and Communication; 5. Reason as a Public Activity; 6. Rhymes and Reason: Reason as the In Vivo, Concerted Work of Tibetan Philosophers; 7. Strategies in Tibetan Philosophical Debates

Part III: A Sociology of Reasoning8. Using Reasons: Capabilities of Formal Analysis; 9. Some Betrayals of Formal Analysis; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has missed these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. Kenneth Liberman brings these dynamic disputations



to life for the modern reader through a richly detailed, turn-by-turn analysis of the monks' formal philosophical reasoning. He argues that Tibetan Buddhists deliberately organize their debates into formal structures that both empower and constrain thinking, skillfully using logic as an interactional tool to organize their