Dialogues for Diversity: An Asian Proposal for Overcoming Racism: Perspectival Shift from Dualism to Nondualism
Building: Online
Event Category: Diversity Programs
This lecture will talk about the conceptual paradigm of dualism and how it has shaped how we perceive the world or how the world appears to us. This can foster racism and other prejudices. There is another conceptual paradigm, nondualism, which can help us break free from dualism, and this lecture will discuss the opportunities and benefits of nondualism as well.
Speaker Shigenori Nagatomo received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Hawai’i in 1985 where he studied comparative philosophy focusing on Asian and European traditions. He has been interested in the mind-body problem with a particular emphasis on Yogic, Buddhist (Zen), and Daoist meditation methods, and supplements these with Jungian psychology. He has been teaching twenty-five years in the department of religion at Temple University where he is Professor of Comparative Philosophy and East Asian Buddhism.
