著者

阿部正雄 著

出版者

大政翼賛会宣伝部

巻号頁・発行日

1943

著者

阿部 正雄

出版者

京都女子学園仏教文化研究所

雑誌

仏教文化研究所研究紀要 (ISSN:02881675)

巻号頁・発行日

no.8, pp.p1-58, 1978-03

著者

阿部 正雄

出版者

宗教哲学会

雑誌

宗教哲学研究 (ISSN:02897105)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, pp.1-11, 1995 (Released:2018-08-26)

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In the West such positive principles as being, life, and the good have ontological priority over negative principles such as non-being, death, and evil. In this sense, negative principles are always apprehended as something secondary. By contrast, in the East, especially in Taoism and Buddhism, negative principles are not secondary but co-equal to the positive principles and even may be said to be primary and central. This is so in the sense that the realization of negativity is crucial to reveal ultimate Reality, and in the sense that the nameless Tao or Emptiness is realized as the root-source of both positive and negative principles in their relative sense. In short, the ultimate which is beyond the opposition between positive and negative is realized in the East in terms of negativity and in the West in terms of positivity.