Nietzsche and Zen Braak Andre Van Der
Nietzsche and Zen Braak Andre Van Der In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, Andr van der Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of the Buddhist Zen tradition:…
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Nietzsche and Zen Braak Andre Van Der
In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, Andr van der Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of the Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna (c. 860), Dogen (1200-1253), and Nishitani (1900-1990). 150-250), Linji (d.
Van der Braak begins by analyzing Nietzsche's relationship to Buddhism and status as a transcultural thinker, recalling research on Nietzsche and Zen to date and setting out the basic argument of the study. In doing so, he reveals Nietzsche's thought as a philosophy of continuous self-overcoming, in which even the notion of "self" has been overcome. He continues by examining the practices of self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Zen, comparing Nietzsche's radical skepticism with that of Nagarjuna and comparing Nietzsche's approach to truth to Linji's.
Nietzsche's methods of self-overcoming are compared to Dogen's zazen, or sitting meditation