Can Cobb Integrate Dharmakīrti?
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts
Major
Philosophy
Date of Defense
10-31-2006
Graduate Advisor
Berit Brogaard, PhD.
Committee
Jon McGinnis
Robert Northcott
Theodore Vitali
Abstract
Deep Religious Pluralism is a recent compilation of attempts to integrate religious systems within a superstructure of Process metaphysics, or the ¿complementary pluralistic hypothesis.¿ I argue that Process complementary pluralism entails a specific metaphysics of time, which can be represented by the growing block theory in analytic philosophy. It relies upon the metaphysics of complementary pluralism as a superstructure within which to construe the diversity of religions as valid, insofar as they each make contact with a different ¿ultimate reality.¿ If it is the case that the ultimate reality of a religious tradition conflicts with the superstructure, then integration of that tradition into a deep religious pluralism fails. Dharmakīrti¿s Buddhist view of time serves as a test case, to show that there are conflicts between it and Process metaphysics. Ultimately, I conclude that there are tensions within Whitehead¿s work which need be explored further to extract a more satisfactory ontology, at least when attempting to compare Process and other religious metaphysics.
Note: This thesis is under a author requested embargo until 2207, after which it will become available in accordance with end of expected copyright protection. This embargo year is intentional and not an error.
OCLC Number
526550002
Recommended Citation
Keating, Colleen, "Can Cobb Integrate Dharmakīrti?" (2006). Theses. 202.
https://irl.umsl.edu/thesis/202
