Description du projet
Croyance et éthique dans la philosophie bouddhiste chinoise
Le projet CHINBUDDHPHIL, financé par le CER, contribuera à l’étude historique et systématique de la philosophie bouddhiste chinoise. Il se concentrera sur l’école Sanlun, un mouvement d’une importance fondamentale inspiré du Madhyamaka indien et actif pendant une période déterminante de l’histoire du bouddhisme en Chine. En se concentrant sur la conception globalement non étudiée et pourtant très originale de l’école sur la manière dont la croyance est liée à l’action éthique, il s’agira de la première élaboration complète de la philosophie de Sanlun dans une langue occidentale. En outre, le projet examinera la philosophie de Sanlun en parallèle avec ses antécédents indiens, ses élaborations ultérieures au sein du bouddhisme chinois et ses analogues dans la philosophie occidentale. Ce faisant, CHINBUDDHPHIL démontrera que les philosophes bouddhistes chinois méritent d’être considérés non seulement comme des artefacts historiques, mais aussi comme des contributeurs très intéressants et perspicaces à des problèmes philosophiques de longue date.
Objectif
Is it ethical to believe? CHINBUDDHPHIL will explore this basic yet troubling question by reconstructing what is a hitherto largely unstudied yet highly original philosophical conception of how belief relates to ethical action. Substantively, this project will constitute a major contribution to the historical and systematic study of Chinese Buddhist philosophy. It will accomplish this end through specialist research on the unduly neglected Sanlun school: A foundationally important movement active during a seminal period in the epochally transformative history of Buddhism in China. This will be the first comprehensive elaboration of Sanlun philosophy in any Western language. By placing Sanlun into debate with its Indian antecedents, later elaborations within Chinese Buddhism, and analogues in Western philosophy, this project will also forge multiple disciplinary innovations. Thus, within philosophy it will transform our understanding of philosophically valuable traditions by demonstrating that Chinese Buddhist philosophers merit consideration not only as historical artifacts but as genuinely interesting and insightful contributors to live philosophical problems. It will likewise redress the preponderant exclusion of Chinese perspectives from philosophically-oriented scholarship in Buddhist studies, and do so in a manner that bridges it with philologically-oriented Buddhology. And by investigating both the transmission of Indian Buddhist thought into China and its transformation once established there, it will revise the standard chronology of Chinese Buddhist philosophy, theorize India-China as a globalized sphere of dynamic intellectual interaction within trans-cultural Asian studies, and inform scholarship on cultural appropriation and assimilation, enculturation, and acculturation – all from a distinctly non-Eurocentric perspective. Methodologically, CHINBUDDHPHIL will use synchronic hermeneutic-philosophical as well as diachronic text-historical methods.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institution d’accueil
1010 Wien
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