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Zen Buddhism on the Limits of Knowledge and the Practice of Wisdom

Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte April 9, 2026 Bret W. Davis

This article examines how the Zen Buddhist tradition has conceived of the relation between intellectual knowledge and holistic wisdom. It begins with some reflections on Aristotle and the history of Western philosophy in order to pose the metaphilosophical question of whether, in modern times, philo-sophia has become more narrowly philo-epistēmē. With this critical question in mind, and in...