Edward Conze, in his ''Buddhist Thought in India'', sees an unfortunate conceptual barrier between Eastern philosophy and contemporary Western philosophy. Eastern philosophy, he argues, is grounded in a metaphysical position that the [[universe]] has various layers of reality. The outer layer involves our ordinary perceptions of things, and the inner layer is a unified reality that permeates everything, including humans. [http://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/vita/teaching/eastphil.htm] | Edward Conze, in his ''Buddhist Thought in India'', sees an unfortunate conceptual barrier between Eastern philosophy and contemporary Western philosophy. Eastern philosophy, he argues, is grounded in a metaphysical position that the [[universe]] has various layers of reality. The outer layer involves our ordinary perceptions of things, and the inner layer is a unified reality that permeates everything, including humans. [http://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/vita/teaching/eastphil.htm] |