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Art/Literary - Philosophy / Keiji Nishitani | | Japanese term or phrase: 根元的意欲の生 | I'm having trouble finding a wording for this. It comes from this epic sentence.
西谷によれば、元初の暗い意欲が形式によって否定され、限定を受け、しかもその形式を通して更に形式を離脱していくというのが、根元的意欲の運動であるが、「自我」は**根元的意欲の生**のなかから生じた、生の自己表現としての「形式」であり、意識的な意志作用として意識のあらゆる分野で働いていく。
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| | English translation:Fundamental will to live | Explanation:
Sound like basic Buddhist psychology to me! (I know Nishitani wasn't a Buddhist philosopher as such but the influence is there). I'm sure I've seen 意欲translated as craving quite a lot, but its probably best to consider it a neutral phenomena in this context.
The following might help:
The personal will or volition in its primal form is the urge to live, the urge to survive as a self and to assert this selfhood. From this fundamental will to live arise various tendencies, which we know as urges, instincts, and desires, and which are accompanied by emotions.
In Buddhist psychology, the instincts and desires are all regarded as manifestations of the fundamental will to live. This will to live, as a rule, is simply called craving: it is the craving or thirst for personal existence, the craving to live and survive as a self for eternity. But the final freedom from unhappiness can be found only by transcending personal existence.
http://www.bps.lk/bp_library/bp_413.html
意欲と行動
Ｑ： 何か行動を起こすときは、何々をしたいと言う欲求があってこそ、その行動を起こすのではないでしょうか？「欲求はいけない，欲求は貪りだ」とするならば、人が起こすいかなる行動も、悪いことではないでしょうか？
Ａ： 仏教で「意欲」と日本語に翻訳されている言葉は、パーリ語ではチャンダ (chanda)ですが、意欲というのが適当な訳語かどうかわかりません。
http://www.j-theravada.net/qa/gimon27.html
Nyanatiloka, in his Buddhist dictionary, defines intention, or, in Pali, chanda in this manner:
1. As an ethically neutral psychological term, in the sense of 'intention', ...
2. As an evil quality it has the meaning of 'desire', and is frequently coupled with terms for 'sensuality', 'greed'...
3. As a good quality it is a righteous will or zeal...
http://www.orlandoinsight.org/peter's_pointers.html
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If you want to keep 生 as the main noun, I'd be tempted to go for something like 'life directed / driven by the fundamental will' |
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6 hrs confidence:   Fundamental will to live
Explanation:
Sound like basic Buddhist psychology to me! (I know Nishitani wasn't a Buddhist philosopher as such but the influence is there). I'm sure I've seen 意欲translated as craving quite a lot, but its probably best to consider it a neutral phenomena in this context.
The following might help:
The personal will or volition in its primal form is the urge to live, the urge to survive as a self and to assert this selfhood. From this fundamental will to live arise various tendencies, which we know as urges, instincts, and desires, and which are accompanied by emotions.
In Buddhist psychology, the instincts and desires are all regarded as manifestations of the fundamental will to live. This will to live, as a rule, is simply called craving: it is the craving or thirst for personal existence, the craving to live and survive as a self for eternity. But the final freedom from unhappiness can be found only by transcending personal existence.
http://www.bps.lk/bp_library/bp_413.html
意欲と行動
Ｑ： 何か行動を起こすときは、何々をしたいと言う欲求があってこそ、その行動を起こすのではないでしょうか？「欲求はいけない，欲求は貪りだ」とするならば、人が起こすいかなる行動も、悪いことではないでしょうか？
Ａ： 仏教で「意欲」と日本語に翻訳されている言葉は、パーリ語ではチャンダ (chanda)ですが、意欲というのが適当な訳語かどうかわかりません。
http://www.j-theravada.net/qa/gimon27.html
Nyanatiloka, in his Buddhist dictionary, defines intention, or, in Pali, chanda in this manner:
1. As an ethically neutral psychological term, in the sense of 'intention', ...
2. As an evil quality it has the meaning of 'desire', and is frequently coupled with terms for 'sensuality', 'greed'...
3. As a good quality it is a righteous will or zeal...
http://www.orlandoinsight.org/peter's_pointers.html
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Note added at 7 hrs (2007-11-21 10:30:50 GMT)
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If you want to keep 生 as the main noun, I'd be tempted to go for something like 'life directed / driven by the fundamental will'
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