Nobuhara, Tokiyuki. "Reason and Intuition in Christian and Buddhist Philosophy: Anselm's Proslogion II and IV Reinterpreted in Light of D. T. Suzuki's Zen Thought." In Humanity and Religion in an Age of Science. (Kyoto, Japan: Hozokan, 2010). 85-130.
Abstract
In this first attempt at considering Anselm in
comparison with other thinkers, such as Nagarjuna and Whitehead, I was
motivated to learn the philosophical grounds for the scientific use of
principles in reference to their convertibility into realities.
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Now, in this fourth essay on Anselm and Buddhism I will first discuss,
with Karl Barth and Gregory Schufreider, how Anselm's argument aiming
at fulfilling the request upon God in Proslogion I to "show Yourself"
is shot through with the procedure of reasoning evolving in itself the
sort of understanding which admits reason to a vision of the matter
itself (i.e., God) or what Barth designated "divine illuminare," based
upon "divine donare," resulting in the "Gratias tibi, bone domine."
Second,
I, again, will scrutinize and reinterpret Anselm's procedure at its
very outset (namely, the Name of God as aliquid quo nihil maius
cogitari posit), however, by reference to Suzuki's clarification of the
Zen mondo (question and answer) as involving in itself what he calls
soku-hi logic, "A is not-A and therefore A is A," in which vijnana
(knowledge) is never vijnana without prajna (wisdom); prajan is the
necessary postulate of vijnana. Thus, Anselm's final gratitude to God,
"Gratias tibi, bone domine," will be verified as being deepened by its
inclusion of Zen logic of prajna (or soku-hi logic) while proceeding
because of reason's vision or revelation.