Emptiness Appraised: A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780700710669 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str.

David Burton; F. Burton David

Opis

An examination of the work of the Mahayana Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna. The text refutes the popular interpretation of his philosophy as a form of scepticism and exposes the textual and philosophical weaknesses of the view that Nagarjuna advocates a trans-rational gnosis of an unconceptualisable reality. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way between nihilism and eternalism, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, as his opponents contended.

Spis treści

Chapter One Introduction; Part I Part I; Chapter Two N?g?rjuna and Scepticism; Chapter Three Non-Conceptuality and Knowledge of Reality; Chapter Four The Problem of Nihilism; Part II Part II; Chapter Five The Purpose of Part II; Chapter Six The Ny?ya Pram??a Theory; Chapter Seven N?g?rjuna’s Non-Apprehension of Entities; Chapter Eight Mutually Dependent Existence; Chapter Nine The Attack on Validation: Introduction; Chapter Ten The Attack on Intrinsic Validation; Chapter Eleven The Attack on Extrinsic Validation; Chapter Twelve The Attack on Validation: Conclusion; Chapter Thirteen The Argument from the Three Times; Chapter Fourteen Further Arguments in the Vaidalyaprakara?a; Chapter Fifteen Conclusion;

O autorze

David Burton