Existential
philosophy and psychology in the West and the East
I. Kohyama |
The
emergence of existential philosophy and psychology in the West and
the East was traced and compared. In the West the existential philosophy
as the search for the proper or the true self was traced to later
Schelling, who opened a different way from the line of German idealism.
The line of the analysis of passions since Plato and Aristotle through
Descartes, Spinoza and Kant was regarded as the pioneer in existential
psychology. In the East in the development of Buddhism, which was
originally existential, 1Vembutsu (belief in Amita-Buddha) appeared
at every school of Mahayana Buddhism and the writer identified this
as the immanent criticism to its pantheistic philosophical trends,
and compared this protest with the emergence of existentialism in
the West.
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