| Responding
to our modern disillusionment with any claims to absolute truth regarding
morality or reality, this book offers a conceptual approach for discussing
absolutes without denying either the relevance of divergent religious
and philosophical teachings or the evidence supporting postmodern
and poststructuralist critiques.
Case studies of mysticism within Advaita-Vedanta Hinduism, Madhyamika
Buddhism, and Nicene Christianity demonstrate the value of this
approach and offer many fresh insights into the metaphysical presuppositions
of these religions as well as into the nature and value of mystical
experience.
Like Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, this book
finds ultimate reality to be rationally graspable only as an eternal
fugue of pattern and paradox. Yet it does not so much counter other
philosophical views as provide a conceptual tool for understanding
and classifying incommensurable views. |
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