Dōgen and the Linguistics of Reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3432239 |
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| Authors | Rein Raud (0000-0003-3730-828X, Tallinn University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 331 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel12050331 |
| OpenAlex | W3160849854 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The goal of this article is to show how Dōgen's views of language, perhaps the most "mystical" part of his thought at first glance, can be interpreted in a framework that is wholly rational in the broader sense of the word. Dōgen belongs to a pansemioticist tradition and indeed maintains that being is tantamount to signification, but unlike previous pansemioticists, such as Kūkai, he does not posit a signifying subjective Other to whom the "message" of reality can be attributed. In Dōgen's view, the meaningfulness of an event is a concomitant characteristic of its very reality, because the availability of reality for us to experience is already a linguistic phenomenon. The article argues that this is not a mystical thesis, but a view that can also be articulated in a more familiar and fully rational idiom, and that it bears similarities with many different Western thinkers and theorists, such as Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Gadamer, Peirce, Jakobson, and others
Epistemology · Linguistics · Mysticism · Phenomenon · Theology · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Highly cited | No |
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