Thich Nhat Hanh on Being and Nonbeing and Beyond
คำสำคัญ:
Zen, Thich Nhat Hanh, contradiction, being and nonbeing, interbeingบทคัดย่อ
The Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh states what appear to be contradictions, saying that ‘everything is only for one brief instant’ but also that ‘nothing can be created or destroyed’, and similarly that ‘we are all dying and being reborn at every moment’ but also that ‘nothing can be born, nothing can die’. The aim of this paper is to resolve these apparent contradictions concerning being and nonbeing and concerning birth and death. I analyse the ideas on being and nonbeing, and on birth and death, argue that in light of what these statements are intended to convey, the contradictions can be resolved, and point to what there is beyond being and nonbeing. The paper thus shows that, at least as far as these statements go, Thich Nhat Hanh’s metaphysical framework is consistent. In addition, it reveals a practical dimension that goes beyond being and nonbeing towards a middle way based on an insight into interbeing.
เอกสารอ้างอิง
Cameron, R. (2006). Much ado about nothing: A study of metaphysical nihilism. Erkenntnis, 64, 193–222.
Conee, E., & Sider, T. (2005). Riddles of existence: A guided tour of metaphysics. Oxford University Press.
Davis, B. (2013). Forms of emptiness in Zen. In S. M. Emmanuel (Ed.), A companion to Buddhist philosophy (pp. 190–213). Wiley.
Deguchi, Y., Garfield, J. L., & Priest, G. (2008). The way of the dialetheist: Contradictions in Buddhism. Philosophy East and West, 58(3), 395–402.
Garfield, J. L. (1995). The fundamental wisdom of the middle way. Oxford University Press.
Gordon, J. S. (2008). Abortion. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/abortion/
Ingram, D. (2025). Presentism and eternalism. In N. Emery (Ed.), The Routledge companion to philosophy of time (pp. 197–208). Routledge.
Lowe, E. J. (2022). Metaphysical nihilism and the subtraction argument. Analysis, 62, 62–73.
Miller, K. (2013). Presentism, eternalism, and the growing block. In A. Bardon & H. Dyke (Eds.), A companion to the philosophy of time (pp. 345–364). Wiley.
Schwarz, S. D. (1990). The moral question of abortion. Loyola University Press.
Singer, P. (1993). Practical ethics. Cambridge University Press.
Thich Nhat Hanh. (1974). Zen keys. Anchor Books.
Thich Nhat Hanh. (1988). The heart of understanding. Parallax Press.
Thich Nhat Hanh. (1998). The heart of the Buddha’s teaching. Broadway Books.
Thich Nhat Hanh. (2017a). The art of living. Penguin.
Thich Nhat Hanh. (2017b). The other shore. Parallax Press.
Turner, J. (2011). Ontological nihilism. In K. Bennett & D. W. Zimmerman (Eds.), Oxford studies in metaphysics (Vol. 6, pp. 3–54). Oxford University Press.
Westerhoff, J. (2024). An argument for ontological nihilism. Inquiry, 67, 513–559.
ดาวน์โหลด
เผยแพร่แล้ว
รูปแบบการอ้างอิง
ฉบับ
ประเภทบทความ
สัญญาอนุญาต
ลิขสิทธิ์ (c) 2025 วารสารปณิธาน
อนุญาตภายใต้เงื่อนไข Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
เนื้อหาของบทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ในวารสารปณิธานถือเป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวารสารปณิธาน ห้ามเผยแพร่ ตัดต่อ แก้ไข หรือนำไปใช้ก่อนได้รับอนุญาต
ผู้สนใจสามารถติดต่อขอเผยแพร่เนื้อหาในวารสารปณิธานได้ที่ panidhana-human@cmu.ac.th
