A Spiritual Evolutionism: Lü Cheng, Aesthetic Revolution, and the Rise of a Buddhism-Inflected Social Ontology in Modern China
This study examines the early career of the renowned Buddhologist Lü Cheng as an aspiring revolutionary. My findings reveal that Lü’s rhetoric of “aesthetic revolution” both catapulted him into the center of the New Culture Movement and popularized a Buddhist idealism—Yogācāra (consciousness-only sc...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2021
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Journal of global buddhism
Jahr: 2021, Band: 22, Heft: 1, Seiten: 49-75 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Lü, Simian 1884-1957
/ Sozialdarwinismus
/ Ablehnung
/ Spiritualität
/ Evolution
/ Ästhetisches Ideal
/ Vierter-Mai-Bewegung
/ Yogācāra
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik BL Buddhismus KBM Asien |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Buddhist soteriology
B Social Philosophy B Yogācāra B evolutionism B Aesthetics B May Fourth New Culture Movement B Anti-realism |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This study examines the early career of the renowned Buddhologist Lü Cheng as an aspiring revolutionary. My findings reveal that Lü’s rhetoric of “aesthetic revolution” both catapulted him into the center of the New Culture Movement and popularized a Buddhist idealism—Yogācāra (consciousness-only school)—among thinkers who sought alternatives social theories. Lü aimed to refute social Darwinism and scientific materialism, which portray humans as mechanized individuals bereft of moral agency. He theorized an anti-realist social ontology, i.e., a social oneness grounded in intersubjective resonances, from which subjective interiority and objective exteriority arise. Lü turned to Buddhism to further his revolution. Buddhist soteriology supplied powerful tools for theorizing the social: The doctrine of no-self refuted philosophical solipsism and curtailed individualism; dependent-origination refashioned social evolution as collective spiritual progress. Lü’s spiritual-evolutionism-cum-social-ontology broadens the field of Buddhist philosophy that has a long-standing blind spot on social philosophies developed in the Global South. |
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| ISSN: | 1527-6457 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of global buddhism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4727558 |