"Universal Reason" as a Local Organizational Method: Announcement of a Study

This article announces an ethnomethodological study of the formal analytic practices of Tibetan philosophers engaged in the collaborative work of producing correct philosophical debates. Tibetan scholar-monks address themselves to the work of sustaining an argument, providing formal warrants for aut...

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Published in:Human studies 1996-07, Vol.19 (3), p.289-301
Main Author: Liberman, Kenneth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Buddhism
Buddhist philosophy
Comparative philosophy
Debate
Dialectic
Dialectics
Ethnomethodology
Monks
Organization
Philosophical analysis
Philosophy
Rationality
Reason
Reasoning
Theology
Truth
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Summary:This article announces an ethnomethodological study of the formal analytic practices of Tibetan philosophers engaged in the collaborative work of producing correct philosophical debates. Tibetan scholar-monks address themselves to the work of sustaining an argument, providing formal warrants for authorizing truth and correctness, objectivating their accounts and disengaging those accounts from their local organizational practices. At the same time, it is the concern of the Tibetans' dialectics to avoid naive acceptance of reified accounts. The announced study proposes to describe their philosophical activities and to locate what originality may affect resolving the tension between formal analytic work and philosophical insight into truth.
ISSN:0163-8548
1572-851X
DOI:10.1007/BF00144023