PHIL 3920 Study Guide - Final Guide: Zhu Xi, Huineng

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 3920
• Professor: Dortor

Document Summary

Extremely focused on the metaphysical aspect of things and conceptual basis of thinking. In order to achieve enlightenment a person needs to combine thinking and action. Knowledge and action always need to be combined together. Enlightenment can be achieved when an individual actively seeks knowledge. He believed that you must investigate idea/events, mediate upon them and then investigate them some more. Only when one has come completely knowledgeable will they be enlightened. On the other hand chi-tsang rules out metaphysical assertions and conceptual basis of thinking as a way of enlightenment. He believes they are erroneous and out to be rejected. He argues that in order to achieve enlightenment you must go beyond the right and the wrong , True and false and see the empty nature of things. When philosophers use conceptual thinking they are belonging to the realm of being and therefore also the realm of nothing. The realm of being and nothing are unintelligible.