20.500.12556/RUL-178349 Eduard von Hartmann, Pessimism, and the Europeanization of Buddhism Eduard von Hartmann, pesimizem in evropeizacija budizma Eduard von Hartmann was one of the most influential public philosophers of his era, known primarily through his Philosophy of the Unconscious. A conservative nationalist in politics, he positioned himself as a cultural and religious reformer and modernist ad­vocate of a “religion of the future” of self-redemption (autosoterism), one that reconciled pessimism and a panpneumatic impersonal unconscious with rationality and individu­al responsibility. This paper traces how Buddhism served as a primary albeit imperfect exemplar in his thought, how his ethical and symbolic interpretative strategy, based on the unconscious, drew him into proximity and conflict with esoteric spiritist discourses, and how this context informed his Daodejing interpretation. German Idealism disclosed the unity of reason, will, and nature, while Buddhist teachings demonstrated the world’s fundamentally contradictory and illusory character through nothingness (emptiness), nir­vāṇa, and objective illusionism and phenomenalism. Hartmann’s secularized moral and symbolic adaptation of Buddhism entailed a resigned yet heroic embrace of suffering life rather than what he deemed ascetic and quietist acquiescence. His hermeneutics reveal his modernizing vision of Buddhism as an exemplary model (if suitably reformed to ac­centuate a heroic response to suffering and karma) for the future. Eduard von Hartmann je bil eden najvplivnejših javnih filozofov svojega časa, znan pred-vsem po svojem delu Filozofija nezavednega. Četudi je bil v političnem pogledu konserv-ativni nacionalist, se je predstavljal kot kulturni in verski reformator ter modernistični zagovornik »religije prihodnosti« in samoodrešitve (avtosoterizma), ki naj bi povezala pesimizem ter panpnevmatistično brezosebno nezavedno z racionalnostjo in individualno odgovornostjo. Prispevek sledi vlogi, ki jo je v njegovem mišljenju igral budizem kot glavni, četudi nikakor ne popoln vzor. Avtor prikaže, na kakšen način je bila Hartman-nova etična in simbolna strategija interpretacij utemeljena na pojmu nezavednega ter kako se je približevala ezoteričnim duhovnim diskurzom in se hkrati od njih oddaljevala. Pojasnjuje, kako je ta kontekst vplival na njegovo razlago Daodejinga. Nemški idealizem je razkril enotnost razuma, volje in narave, medtem ko so budistični nauki pokazali, da je svet v svojem bistvu protisloven in iluzoren, kar se izraža skozi nič (praznino), nirva-no ter objektivni iluzionizem in fenomenalizem. Hartmannova sekularizirana moralna in simbolna priredba budizma je pomenila resignirano, toda junaško sprejetje trpečega življenja namesto tistega, kar je sam imel za asketsko in kvietistično vdajo. Njegova hermenevtika razkriva modernizirano vizijo budizma. V tem okviru pokaže, da lahko budizem postane vzorčni model za prihodnost, če je le ustrezno reformiran, da poudari junaški odziv na trpljenje in karmo. Buddhism nihilism panpsychism pessimism the unconscious budizem nihilizem panpsihizem pesimizem nezavedno true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-01-23 12:15:54 2026-01-23 12:15:56 2026-01-27 15:33:19 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0 0 0 Str. 375-396 no. 1 Vol. 14 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-01-09 2232-5131 2350-4226 https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2026.14.1.375-396 RAZ_Nelson_Eric_S._0.pdf RAZ_Nelson_Eric_S._0.pdf 1 C9B09029CC427F3E6372AFAE25624A72 9ed47cd6d6f6007a5001c7eca2f5e8681657e072141065824053653b4c40a568 aff7a9d5-f84f-11f0-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=226125 https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/23929 0 1b607199-fb8d-11f0-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=226307 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0