Questions tagged [buddhism]
a religion of eastern and central Asia that is based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha
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Is there a rigorous critique of Western essentialism from a Buddhist perspective as a failure to realize sabbe dhammā anattā?
I'm looking for academic or philosophical sources that directly argue that Western philosophical essentialism - the positing of intrinsic essences, grounds, or "things in themselves" - is a ...
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"Us" in Hegel's "Greater Logic"
I am a practitioner of Buddhism, and I know well the philosophy of Ādwaita and Buddhism.
To be honest, I’m a little skeptical about Western philosophy, but enough familiar with it.
Decided to study ...
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How does Hinduism and Buddhism address the issue of preserving scripture through plausibly erroneous oral traditions? [closed]
In Hinduism and Buddhism , scriptures were orally preserved by disciples and only centuries later ,they were given written form by historical perspective . So, supposing that these oral traditions ...
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Modern perspective on Maya
As I understand it (undoubtedly flawed), the concept of maya can be expressed through the following statement:
Reality is not words or symbols, so any attempt to put reality into
words or symbols is ...
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Can Philosophy or Buddhism solve all our problems? [closed]
Can Philosophy or Buddhism solve all our problems?
Our problems are many such as, needing food, shelter, money, repairing our house, etc.
But, can philosophy, such as the Buddhist philosophy, solve ...
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How do contemporary philosophers' views on the self stand up to Nagarjuna's?
Here is Nagarjuna's critique of the self:
"If the self were its aggregates, it would have arising and ceasing as properties. If the self were different from its aggregates, it would not have the ...
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On the truth value of "the self exists"?
My understanding is this:
One can extend classical logic with the use of the catuskoti and have the following positions on statements: true, false, neither true nor false, both true and false.
For ...
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Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky, what philosophies are behind these two titans of Russian classics and why they are so different? [closed]
Educated Russians fall into two distinct groups, one group of Dostoevsky lovers and readers and another group of those who read Tolstoy. Tolstoy supporters will call Dostoevsky "crazy psychopath&...
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What rationale is behind celibacy in Schopenhauer's philosophy and his support for self-flagellation practices
Schopenhauer is known for his views on celibacy as a sort of symbolic manifestation of individual's denial to "establish his will outside of his body". In the last chapters of his "Die ...
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Is there any evidence that Buddhism was influenced by Greek philosophy? If so, how?
Recently I've been reading about Stoicism as well as the philosophy of Chih-I and his Mohe Zhiguan. In both philosophies I've noticed some similar elements which brought about the question of how much ...
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Compatibility between Madhyamaka and aristotelianism
Madhyamaka—the Indo-Tibetan scholastic systematization of Buddhism—rests on three core theses:
(A1) Everything is reducible to parts and composition never ultimately occurs.
(A2) Every phenomenon is ...
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How do buddhists employ paraconsistent logic in their alternative to cartesian duality?
Can someone introduce me to a book which introduces the use of paraconsistent logic in Buddhism? Like I don't understand what exactly is their alternative to cartesian duality and how they employ ...
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What "happens to us" and what "we do"
The question of "free will" has always been relevant.
I take rather reductionist (or Buddhist) position:
will exists as a relative, subjective phenomenon. More like an illusion.
But now I ...
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Does "no self" in Buddhism mean that ethics and morality go out the window?
No-self has been an idea in the philosophy I thought ran contradictory to their ethics and morality. The idea of no permanent soul or essence that persists through time. That what people are is just a ...
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How does buddhism object to I think therefore I am?
I've heard buddhism objects to I think therefore I am (something about presupposing the self). What is their objection specifically?
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