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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: “He Who Knows Does Not Speak”? Speech\, Silence
 \, and Ultimate Knowledge in Advaita Vedanta and Confucianism
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture presented by Dr. Sophia Katz (Tel-Hai College\,
  Qiryat Shemona)\n\nThe presentation assesses the philosophical approache
 s to the process of attaining ultimate knowledge found in the writings of 
 the Advaitic philosopher\, Adi Sankara (788-820)\, and the Ming dynasty Co
 nfucian scholar\, Zhan Ruoshui 湛若水 (1466-1560). Despite the fact tha
 t Advaita Vedanta and Confucianism differ in their perceptions of selfhood
  and in their premises regarding the nature of reality\, scrutiny of textu
 al examples shows that the two thinkers promote a path of intellectual/spi
 ritual realization characterized by both ineffability and rationality.\n\n
 On the one hand\, both Sankara and Zhan claim that ultimate knowledge is u
 nreachable through intellectual speculation: it implies mystical directnes
 s and must be accompanied by silence. On the other hand\, the intellectual
  preparation of the aspirants by means of reading Hindu and Confucian scri
 ptures is considered necessary by both scholars. The importance of scriptu
 res in the process of attaining ultimate knowledge makes Sankara’s intel
 lectual/spiritual vision closer to the Confucian approach of Zhan Ruoshui 
 than to the vision depicted in the Daoist sources\, the Daodejing and the 
 Zhuangzi\, notable for their anti-intellectual claims. In addition\, the a
 ssessment of Sankara’s and Zhan Ruoshui’s perceptions of selfhood and 
 their understanding of the mystical oneness enables evaluation of the spec
 ific forms of philosophical mysticism accepted in Advaita Vedanta and Conf
 ucianism\, suggesting the existence of surprising parallels between them.\
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LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-sophia-katz-2016/
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