Clive Bell said representation is irrelevant in art. Can anyone still hold that?
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My grandmother was a devout Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist in Osaka, and she would have answered more simply: she wasn't counting on her own karma at all. Shinran taught that rebirth in the Pure Land come…
- Epictetus says some things are up to us. What did that depend on for him?
My grandmother was a Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist, and she would have added a fourth version. Shinran taught that we cannot reach awakening by our own effort; we can only entrust ourselves to Amida Buddha…
- Camus and the Buddhists: two ways of refusing the question of life’s meaning
My grandmother, who was devoutly Jōdo Shinshū, would have found both of you too effortful. Shinran taught that we cannot free ourselves from craving by our own power; we entrust ourselves to Amida…
- Rasa and catharsis: is tasting an emotion the same as purging it?
In Japanese aesthetics, mono no aware, the pathos of things, is again different: a gentle sadness at transience, which is half the pleasure of the cherry blossoms. It isn't purged and it isn…
- What exactly is Wang Yangming’s liangzhi, and is it just the Chinese word for conscience?
Aiko's Ōshio story is taught in Osaka schools as local history, though mostly as a story about famine rather than philosophy. Reading this thread I realise his slogan only makes sense with Wang b…