Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: N?g?rjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness
N?g?rjuna is the most influential of all Buddhist thinkers following the Buddha himself. Throughout his works, N?g?rjuna calls on us to completely abandon all our views. But how could anyone possibly do that? This book shows not only how N?g?rjuna's truly radical teaching of ?abelief? makes per...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Buddhist Philosophy
History
B Nāgārjuna (active 2nd century) B Mādhyamika (Buddhism) |
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| Summary: | N?g?rjuna is the most influential of all Buddhist thinkers following the Buddha himself. Throughout his works, N?g?rjuna calls on us to completely abandon all our views. But how could anyone possibly do that? This book shows not only how N?g?rjuna's truly radical teaching of ?abelief? makes perfect sense within his Buddhist philosophy, but how it stands at the summit of his religious mission to care for all living beings. Rather than treating any one aspect of N?g?rjuna's ideas in isolation, here he emerges as forging a single system of thought and practice, one that challenges the very ways in which we think about religion and philosophy. Cover -- Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Emptiness Between the Lines: Reading Buddhist Philosophy of/and/as Religion -- 0.0. The Dream Is Over -- 0.1. Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness -- 0.2. Believing Between the Lines -- 0.3. Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy -- 0.4. Contexts and Texts -- 1. Orienting Reason: A Religious Critique of Philosophizing Nāgārjuna -- 1.1. The Unimaginative Question -- 1.2. Unveiling the East -- 1.3. Orientalizing Reasons -- 1.4. Reimagining Religion and Philosophy -- 2. Logical, Buddhological, Buddhist: A Critical Study of the Tetralemma -- 2.1. Matters and Methods -- 2.2. The Logical Tetralemma -- 2.3. The Buddhological Tetralemma -- 2.4. The Buddhist Tetralemma -- 3. Nāgārjuna's Tetralemma: Tetrāletheia and Tathāgata, Utterance and Anontology -- 3.1. The Dilemma of the Tetralemma -- 3.2. The Exhaustive Tetralemma -- 3.3. Tetralemma as Tetrāletheia -- 3.4. Tetrāletheia as Tathāgata -- 3.5. Utterance and Anontology -- 3.6. Tetralemma and No-Teaching -- 3.7. Silencing Nothing -- 4. Abandoning All Views: A Buddhist Critique of Belief -- 4.1. Views on Abandoning Views -- 4.2. Nāgārjuna's Abandoning Views -- 4.3. Abandoning Nāgārjuna's Views -- 5. All-Embracing Emptiness: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness -- 5.1. The Abandonment of Ethics? -- 5.2. The Ethics of Abandonment -- 5.3. From Ethics to Eirenics -- 5.4. Abandoning All, Embracing All -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. "Nagarjuna is generally accepted by Buddhists and Buddhiologists alike as one of the most important of all Buddhist thinkers. Indeed, his thought has been core to the historical shaping and reshaping of Buddhism throughout South-, Central-, and East-Asia. It continues to fascinate, moreover, as evinced by the plethora of recently published inspirational and intellectual works devoted to him by adherents and academics. Recent scholarly interest in Nagarjuna has been intense, with especial focus on the vexed question of the rationality, or irrationality, of his thought. For understandable reasons, debates in this regard have gravitated toward two points of friction between the arguments Nagarjuna laid out in India almost two millennia ago and those considered acceptable by his philosophically minded interpreters today, trained as these latter have typically been in twentieth-century Western analytical philosophy. Briefly stated, the issues at question relate, firstly, to Nagarjuna's use or tetra lemma, according to which a proposition may be true, false, both true and false, or neither true nor false; and secondly, to Nagarjuna's espousal of the "abandonment of all views""-- |
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| ISBN: | 0197771327 |