What does the statement A&B are related mean? Different cultures see relations differently – on the right are so called integrity dominant cultures.
Thomas Kasulis is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Comparative Studies in the Ohio State University with interests in Comparative Religion, Japanese Religious Thought and Western Philosophy. He has written numerous books and scholarly articles on Japanese religious thought and Western philosophy. He has co-edited for SUNY Press a three-volume series comparing Asian and Western ideas of self in different cultural arenas: Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice (1993), Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice (1994), and Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice (1998). He is the author of Intimacy or Integrity: Philosophy and Cultural Difference (University of Hawaii Press, 2002), a comparative cultural philosophy of relationship based on his Gilbert Ryle Lectures of 1998.He teaches courses listed in Comparative Studies, Philosophy, and East Asian Languages and Literatures focusing on religion and philosophies of Asia, comparative religion, and philosophy of religion.
The topic of the lecture is zen & the ethics of responsibility/ responsiveness. As we will see, in zen tradition responsiveness is more important than responsibility, so we have to adjust our thinking a bit as normally we think of ethics as responsibility.
