Byung-Chul Han philosophy seeks to make explicit the implicit in Zen Buddhism, and does so through the comparison with the leading philosophers of Western philosophy.
Byung-Chul Han offers us in this essay about Zen Buddhism may reflect philosophically on an object that does not involve any philosophy strictly. Although Zen Buddhism is noted for its skeptical attitude to language and conceptual thinking, they have proposed that we give linguistic laps around his use of silence and enigmatic language. To do this, they have recourse to the comparison as a method that brings to light the way.
The philosophy of Zen Buddhism feeds on a "philosophizing about" and "with" Zen Buddhism, aiming to develop conceptually philosophical force that is inherent. The philosophy of Plato, Leibniz, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger, among others, is confronted with the ph...read more