David F. Burton

Emptiness Appraised

A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown to be unconvincing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780415515214
• ISBN-10: 0415515211
• Artikelnr.: 36143433

Autorenporträt

David Burton

Inhaltsangabe

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