The Taboo of Subjectivity

B. Alan Wallace (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2000
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-513207-6 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the relation between science and religion this work argues that, for its adherents, scientific naturalism has become an ersatz religion, with scientism as its fundamentalist branch. The author brings to bear the ideas of Buddhism about the ultimate non-duality of subject and object.

This book focuses on the relation between science and religion. Alan Wallace argues that for its adherents scientific naturalism has taken on the role of an ersatz religion, with scientism functioning as the fundamentalist branch of that creed. A former Buddhist monk, Wallace brings to bear the ideas of Buddhism about the ultimate non-duality of subject and object. He argues that the inquiry into the nature of consciousness can greatly profit by incorporating some of the methods of the great contemplative traditions of the world, including that of the Christian West.

B. Alan Wallace teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.11.2000
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-513207-6 / 0195132076
ISBN-13	978-0-19-513207-6 / 9780195132076
Zustand	Neuware