ABSTRACT For Dōgen, the Buddhist doctrine of “no self” ultimately presents the self as contextualized. The self is for him not an independent entity, but is intricately related to its environment, determined through the many beings around it. In a quite different philosophical setting, Spinoza developed similar ideas. While Dōgen challenged the specifics of a tradition that explicitly argues against the idea of an absolute self, Spinoza faced a more radical challenge: questioning an absolute, unchanging, and free self that the Western tradition has mostly taken for granted. After an analysis of the ideas of the two thinkers, the essay presents some important implications for contemporary times. Our domination of the earth and one another is arguably rooted in the individualism Dōgen and Spinoza seek to overcome. The insight that we are contextualized is a first step toward re-determining ourselves as placed within a larger whole.

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情境化的自我：通过道元和斯宾诺莎重新定位自己

摘要 对于道元来说，佛教“无我”教义最终将自我呈现为情境化的。自我对他来说不是一个独立的实体，而是与它的环境错综复杂地相关，由它周围的许多存在决定。在完全不同的哲学背景下，斯宾诺莎发展了类似的想法。道元挑战了明确反对绝对自我观念的传统的具体细节，而斯宾诺莎则面临着更激进的挑战：质疑西方传统大多认为理所当然的绝对、不变和自由的自我。在分析了两位思想家的思想之后，这篇文章对当代提出了一些重要的启示。我们对地球和彼此的统治可以说是植根于道元和斯宾诺莎寻求克服的个人主义。