SOCIAL SELF AND RELIGIOUS SELF: AN INQUIRY INTO COMPASSION AND THE SELF-OTHER DIALECTIC

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Title:	SOCIAL SELF AND RELIGIOUS SELF: AN INQUIRY INTO COMPASSION AND THE SELF-OTHER DIALECTIC
Author:	Bove, Frank John
Description:	Steve Odin examines the parallel development of the concept of the social self as a self-other dialectic in both contemporary American and Japanese philosophy. George Mead represents the turn to the social self in American philosophy through his dialectic of I and Me. Nishida Kitaro’s I and Thou dialectic represents the turn in contemporary Japanese philosophy. Odin’s final analysis eliminates Nishida’s religious perspective from the comparison with Mead, truncates the discussion of the social self, and mistakenly views Nishida as a social determinist. Odin’s religious reductionism misses important aspects about the self and society, while Nishida’s religious philosophy illuminates certain truths about the self, namely love and compassion that demand individuality and freedom of choice, thereby preventing Nishida’s social self from falling into the traps of social determinism, as Odin claims.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1195568243 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/17737
Date:	2007

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