Cutting Through False Dualisms

Cutting Through False Dualisms

In this article, I will use the two truths doctrine from Buddhism to explicate transformative social change as a transmodern moral framework for critical psychological research. The two truths doctrine, a teaching from the Madhyamaka, or Middle Way, school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by Nāgārjuna,...

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Main Author: Robert K. Beshara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-04-01
Series:International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917705956
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spelling doaj-c29d04df6bc84d5cbbe1ce5481996c152020-11-25T03:24:38ZengSAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods1609-40692017-04-011610.1177/160940691770595610.1177_1609406917705956Cutting Through False DualismsRobert K. Beshara0 University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, USA.In this article, I will use the two truths doctrine from Buddhism to explicate transformative social change as a transmodern moral framework for critical psychological research. The two truths doctrine, a teaching from the Madhyamaka, or Middle Way, school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by Nāgārjuna, nondualistically collapses the ontology of transformation (absolute truth) and the epistemology of social change (relative truth) in the name of soteriology. At their core, dualistic problems and reductionist solutions are based upon the reification of concepts, which can result in devastating effects, such as the objectification (and oppression) of research participants—not mentioning moral relativism. This article attempts to offer a transmodern moral framework for qualitative and theoretical researchers in critical psychology outside the confines of the modern–postmodern debate.https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917705956
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description In this article, I will use the two truths doctrine from Buddhism to explicate transformative social change as a transmodern moral framework for critical psychological research. The two truths doctrine, a teaching from the Madhyamaka, or Middle Way, school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by Nāgārjuna, nondualistically collapses the ontology of transformation (absolute truth) and the epistemology of social change (relative truth) in the name of soteriology. At their core, dualistic problems and reductionist solutions are based upon the reification of concepts, which can result in devastating effects, such as the objectification (and oppression) of research participants—not mentioning moral relativism. This article attempts to offer a transmodern moral framework for qualitative and theoretical researchers in critical psychology outside the confines of the modern–postmodern debate.
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