The transformative philosophical dialogue : from classical dialogues to Jiddu Krishnamurti's method / Shai Tubali.
Tubali, Shai.
2023
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Title
The transformative philosophical dialogue : from classical dialogues to Jiddu Krishnamurti's method / Shai Tubali.
Author
Tubali, Shai.
ISBN
9783031400742 (electronic bk.)
3031400747 (electronic bk.)
3031400739
9783031400735
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40074-2
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (258 p.).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-40074-2 doi
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BL51
Dewey Decimal Classification
181.4
Summary
This book explores dialogue as a transformative form of philosophical practice by unveiling the method behind the unique dialogue developed by mystic and thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986). While Krishnamurti himself generally rejected the cultivation of systems and techniques, Shai Tubali argues that there are easily identifiable patterns through which Krishnamurti strove to realize his dialogical aims. For this reason, he refers to this method, whose existence has evaded Krishnamurti's followers and scholars alike, as the Krishnamurti dialogue. He suggests that these discursive patterns serve to broaden our understanding of the possibilities of philosophical and religious dialogues and further illuminate established forms of dynamic discourse, such as the Socratic method. Inspired by Pierre Hadot's revolutionary reading of the classical Greco-Roman texts, the author centers his attention on Plato's Socratic dialogues and the guru-disciple conversations in the Hindu Upanishads, which fall within the scope of what may be termed 'the transformative dialogue': dialogues that have been written with the intention of bringing about a transformation in the mind of the interlocutor and reader and reorienting their way of life. This text appeals to students as well as researchers and suggests that the Krishnamurti dialogue is not only a continuation and development of the transformative dialogue, but that it also amalgamates ingredients of classical Western philosophy and South Asian mysticism. Moreover, this type of dialogue encourages readers to revisit the lost practice of transformative philosophy, in that it reveals new pathways of philosophical and religious inquiry that bear thought-provoking practical implications.
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Chapter 11: Nāgārjuna, Śaṅkara, Krishnamurti: Negation as a Spiritual Exercise
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Sophia studies in cross-cultural philosophy of traditions and cultures ; 41.
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The Transformative Philosophical Dialogue
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Pre-Introduction The translations used for the main classical sources are as follows:
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Dialogical Disposition of Krishnamurti's Work
Hadot and the Classical Philosophical Dialogue
Understanding Krishnamurti Through the Hadotian Lens
The Krishnamurti Dialogue and Multicultural Philosophy
The Journey Ahead
References
Part I: The Classical Philosophical Dialogue
Chapter 2: 'Know Thyself': Hadot and the Conception of Transformative Philosophy
The 'Organized Totality' of Classical Philosophy

Transformative Philosophy
The Communal Dimension of Transformative Philosophy
Sages or Philosophers?
References
Chapter 3: 'You Have Dispelled My Doubts and Delusions': Dialogue in Classical India and Classical Greece
The Dialogical Dimension of Indian Philosophies
The Conversational Nature of Greek Philosophy
The Beginnings of the Transformative Dialogue
References
Chapter 4: 'When People Are Questioned, and the Questions Are Well Put': Transformative Dialogue in the Upaniṣads and in Plato
Dialogue as Transformation
The Teacher as a Midwife

The Two Types of Transformation
References
Chapter 5: Dialogues of Life and Death: Transformative Dialogue in Plato's Phaedo and in the Kaṭhopaniṣad
Death as an Opportunity
Soul-Liberation in the Phaedo
'Know Thyself to Be Pure and Immortal!'
Where Mysticism Diverges from Transformative Philosophy
Complete and Incomplete Endings
References
Part II: The Krishnamurti Dialogue
Chapter 6: 'We Are Inquiring Together': The Dialogical Nature of Jiddu Krishnamurti's Work
Krishnamurti as a Rebel
The Awakening of Intelligence

Krishnamurti's Teachings as a Living Praxis
References
Chapter 7: 'Questions to Which There Are No Answers': The Method Behind the Krishnamurti Dialogue
The Birth of a New Method
First Dialogue Analysis
Second Dialogue Analysis
On Krishnamurti's Question and Negation
References
Chapter 8: 'The Thunder of Insight': The Final Destination of Krishnamurti's Dialogue
First Stage: The Method
Second Stage: The Preparatory Stage
Third Stage: The Shift of Insight
Fourth Stage: The Ultimate State
References

Chapter 9: 'Come and Join Me': Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Scholars
Krishnamurti and the Life of the Mind
Murdoch-Krishnamurti: Trying to 'Build Up Structures'
Needleman-Krishnamurti: Looking Beyond the Self's Barbed-Wire Fence
Understanding Krishnamurti
References
Part III: Krishnamurti and the Classical Philosophical Dialogue
Chapter 10: Socrates, Kōan, Krishnamurti: Questions as a Spiritual Exercise
Socrates: Refutation as Cleansing
Kōan: Rooting Out the Entire Mind
Krishnamurti: The Answer is in the Question
References

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