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| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Background | |
| Considering Causality | |
| Like the Air We Breathe | |
| The Linear Unidirectional Causal Paradigm | |
| One-Way Causality in the West | |
| One-Way Causality in Indian Thought | |
| The Mutual Causal Paradigm in the West | |
| The Buddhist Vision of Mutual Causality | |
| The Reciprocal Hermeneutic of Buddhism and General Systems Theory | |
| Perceptions of Mutual Causality | |
| The Buddhist Teaching of Dependent Co-Arising | |
| The Central Role of the Causal Doctrine in the Dharma | |
| Linear Causality in Pre-Buddhist India | |
| Comparison with Western Linear Views | |
| Scriptural Presentations of Paticca Samuppada | |
| Dependent Co-Arising as Mutual Causality | |
| From Substance to Relation | |
| No First Cause | |
| Syntax of Interdependence | |
| Reciprocity of Causal Factors | |
| Abhidharmist Interpretations | |
| Paticca Samuppada as Interdependence | |
| General Systems Theory | |
| Science's Problems with the One-Way Causal Paradigm | |
| The Perception of Systems in the Life Sciences | |
| Cybernetics and the Concept of Feedback | |
| Systemic Invariances and Hierarchies | |
| Systems Theory in the Social Sciences | |
| The Cognitive System | |
| Systems and Value | |
| Mutual Causality in General Systems Theory | |
| The Transformation of Causes within the System | |
| Feedback as Causal Loop | |
| Negative Feedback Processes | |
| Positive Feedback Processes | |
| Seeing Causes | |
| Dimensions of Mutual Causality | |
| Self as Process | |
| Everything Changes | |
| The Illusion of Separate Selfhood | |
| No Clear Lines of Demarcation | |
| The Lethal Mirage | |
| The Co-Arising of Knower and Known | |
| Perception as Convergence of Factors | |
| Consciousness: Conditioned and Transitive | |
| Information Circuits | |
| Shaping the World through Projection | |
| Learning as Self Reorganization | |
| The Limits of Cognition | |
| Objectless Knowing | |
| Who is Knowing? | |
| The Co-Arising of Body and Mind | |
| Linear Views | |
| "Like Two Sheaves of Reeds" | |
| Two Sides of a Coin | |
| The Internality of All Systems | |
| The Ubiquity and Particularity of Mind | |
| Beyond the Fear of Matter | |
| "Minding" | |
| The Co-Arising of Doer and Deed | |
| Identity and Accountability | |
| The Question of Rebirth | |
| Kaya and Karma | |
| Structure and Function | |
| Past and Present | |
| The Dharma and Determinism | |
| The Determinacy of Choice | |
| The Cognitive System as Decision Center | |
| The Co-Arising of Self and Society | |
| Participation and Particularity | |
| The Interdependence of Person and Community | |
| The Dharma of Social Systems | |
| Mutual Morality | |
| Concern for Other Beings | |
| Tolerance and Iconoclasm | |
| Political Engagement | |
| Right Livelihood and Economic Sharing | |
| Ends and Means | |
| The Dialectics of Personal and Social Transformation | |
| Free to Reconnect | |
| The Tree and the Flame | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory
by Joanna MacyFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2010-03-29
Publisher(s): State University of New York Press (SUNY Press)
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