Ineffability in Comparative Philosophical Perspective

Knepper, Timothy D.

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“…embracing Confucianism and Daoism, along with Buddhism in India, the prophets of Israel, the Greek pre-Socratic philosophers, and Persian Zoroastrianism. 16 This exalted and sublime dimension of self-reflexivity and freedom can be touched on provocatively even through the exercise of laughter. 17 These references suggest the sense in which we might adopt Fenollosa's prophetic anticipation of the future union of East and West.…”

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“…Heidegger's hermeneutics of everyday existence (Hermeneutik des Alltags) give a practical basis in lived experience of simply being there (da-sein) to any operations and contents of knowing. What things are is disclosed by what we 16 Karl Jaspers [18]. For multiple perspectives on the current relevance of this topic, see Bellah [19].…”

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“…Theodore DeBary [15]. The Hanjung mallok as "Memoires Written in Silence" prove particularly pertinent to the apophatic theme.15 In this apophatic vein of comparative philosophy and religion, see Knepper[16]. Specifically, the comparison between Daoist and Western approaches to unknowing that frames the current chapter receives expert treatment in Louis Komjathy[17].…”

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This essay, originally a keynote speech for celebratory occasions in East Asian universities, works from the personal experience of the author as a professor teaching and researching in Macao and visiting other universities of the region. The essay espouses a philosophy that moves from what cannot be said, the ineffable, as the basis for thinking both in the East, with its mystical philosophies focused on what escapes formulation in language, and the West, beginning from the Socratic wisdom of knowing nothing. This negative moment of encountering the other and the unknown, which entails a moment of relinquishing of language, is shown to be crucial to knowledge in the humanities and to resist the pressures toward specialization at the university. These considerations articulate an alternative vision of what liberal arts education can be today that is informed by both Eastern and Western cultural traditions. Their insights can be applied to pragmatic fields and be plied to place even present and future business relations in the perspective of their historical background and universally human grounding.

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confidence: 99%