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Amber D. Carpenter and Pierre-Julien Harter (eds.), Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Buddhist-Platonist Philosophical Inquiries, Oxford University Press, 2024, 299pp., $105.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198880844.
Reviewed by Alexander Englert and Jonathan C. Gold, Princeton University
This essay collection is the result of a years-long conversation between scholars of Buddhist and Platonist philosophy. As told in the introduction, the “Buddhist-Platonist dialogues group” (4) met every month for two years, discussing texts from both traditions with experts in each always on hand. This methodological approach aims at capturing something deeper than what generally occurs in one-off or solitary comparative attempts. Rather than merely reaching for translation of distinct ideas or comparison between specific texts, the explicit goal was the “creation of a new philosophical idiom and community of inquirers” (4).
The present reviewers have attempted a smaller version of just such an experiment, and we were very excited to delve into this study. We were particularly impressed by the purported aim…
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