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Masao Abe
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Masao Abe (阿部 正雄, Abe Masao; 1915 – September 10, 2006) was a Japanese Buddhist philosopher and religious studies scholar who was emeritus professor at Nara University. He is best known for his work in comparative religion, developing a Buddhist-Christian interfaith dialogue which later also included Judaism. His mature views were developed within the Kyoto School of philosophy. According to Christopher Ives: "Since the death of D. T. Suzuki in 1966, Masao Abe has served as the main representative of Zen Buddhism in Europe and North America."
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Under extraordinarily able leaders, a policy was adopted which has been pursued consistently ever since, and has raised Japan from being the helpless victim of Western greed to being one of the greatest Powers in the world. Feudalisim was abolished, the Central Government was made omnipotent, a powerful army and navy were created, China and Russia were successively defeated, Korea was annexed and a protectorate…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
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His "religion," which it would be better to call a system of hygiene, in order to avoid confounding it with a creed so wretched as Christianity, depended for its effect upon the triumph over resentment: to make the soul free therefrom was considered the first step towards recovery. "Not through hostility is hostility put to flight; through friendship does hostility end": this stands at the beginning of Buddha's…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen
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But generally Buddhism (as was not unnatural 60 years ago) is hardly taken here in its characteristic historical features. P. 167, § 88. Aristotle, _Phys,_ i. 8 (191 a.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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