Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide Ganeri Jonardon
Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide Ganeri Jonardon Where do we look when we look inward? Augustine said that to turn inward is to find oneself in a library of memories, while the Indian Buddhist…
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Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide Ganeri Jonardon
Where do we look when we look inward? Augustine said that to turn inward is to find oneself in a library of memories, while the Indian Buddhist tradition holds that we are self-illuminating beings casting light onto a world of shadows. In what sort of space does our inner life take place?
In brief and lively chapters, he ranges across an unexpected assortment of diverse thinkers: Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Chinese, and Western philosophy and literature from the Upaniṣads, Socrates, and Avicenna to Borges, Simone Weil, and Rashōmon. And a disquieting set of dissenters has claimed that inwardness is merely an illusion--or, worse, a deceit.Jonardon Ganeri explores philosophical reflections from many of the world's intellectual cultures, ancient and modern, on how each of us inhabits an inner world. Ganeri examines the various metaphors that have been employed to