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Changing State of Thoughts and Inspiration -For a dialogue between The Awakening of the Faith in the Mahȃyȃna and Totality and infinity-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2020, (34), pp.93~126
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2020..34.005
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 18, 2020
  • Accepted : November 29, 2020
  • Published : November 30, 2020

Kim, Sang-rok 1

1충북대학교

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ABSTRACT

With a view to deepen our understanding about the Arising and Ceasing process of Mind by arranging a dialogue between Levinas’s Totality and infinity and Mahȃyȃna Buddhism’s The Awakening of the Faith in the Mahȃyȃna, this article attempts to have these two works communicate with each other on the subject of changing state of thoughts (the third among four states of mind in its Arising and Ceasing process). And thus it tries to show how constructive and mutually beneficial this dialogue between the changing state analysis (The Awakening of the Faith) and the phenomenology of Labor and of Representation (Totality and infinity) can be. As a result, on the side of The Awakening of the Faith, its several major concepts, remained up to now so abstract as to be void, obtain their vivid concretion by virtue of a series of dramatic events directed by Levinas in his phenomenology. On the other hand, Totality and infinity in its turn gains its clear logical articulation and analytical transparency. If we have succeeded in analyzing in a sophisticated but lucid way this highly intricate text, it is by virtue of a crystalline schema offered by The Awakening of the Faith.

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