Concept tag
#constructivism
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Does a Carmelite’s prayer of union and a Zen kenshō report the same experience?
Between sittings this winter, out of curiosity, I read Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle, which she wrote in 1577. I expected it to be completely foreign. Parts of it were. Other parts, especially her descriptions of the faculties going quiet, felt uncomfortably…
Started by Aiko Tanabe6 replies -
Xunzi says the sages invented ritual and rightness. Does that make him a moral anti-realist?
I came to Xunzi through the debate with Mencius about human nature. That debate is usually told as optimism against pessimism: Mencius thinks we are born with the sprouts of goodness, Xunzi thinks our nature is crooked and goodness comes from deliberate…
Started by Elif Yıldız5 replies