Self

Clammer:

"Secondly, that the common assumptions of autonomy, independence and individualism that pervade Western thought make no sense from the perspective of Asian social psycholo- gies which stress the interdependence of all entities, at the social level what the Vietnamese Buddhist thinker and activist Thich Nhat Hanh calls ‘Interbeing’ (Thich, 1998) and, at the ecological level, in the recognition of the fundamen- tal embeddedness of humans in nature. The ‘ecological self’ announced by ‘Deep Ecology’ has, in fact, long been anticipated in Asian religious traditions."

From: Sociology and Beyond: Towards A Deep Sociology

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Dualism --- Non-Duality