Questions tagged [buddhism]
a religion of eastern and central Asia that is based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha
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What is wrong with samsara and dukkha from the perspective of advaita philosophy? [migrated]
To my understanding, most Āstika schools of Hinduism view dukkha (suffering) and samsara (the cycle of life and death) as something bad, from which one should strive to be liberated (Moksha). This is ...
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Nagarjuna's concept of self to logic?
I'm trying to reduce Nagarjuna's concept of self to logic. However, I'm new to logic and not an expert in Tibetean Buddhism. Is this a close fit?
∃x (S ∃¬x)
I'm reading it as:
If "S" ...
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Discussion about Graham Priest's dialetheic views on Eastern and Western philosophy
Australian philosopher Graham Priest is famous for advocating Dialetheism, the view that there are true contradictions. Dialetheism goes against the law of non-contradiction. This gives rise to the ...
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Liar's paradox, dialethism and law of excluded-middle [duplicate]
I've been reading about liar's paradox and its responses. I like Graham Priest, fantastic philospher and proponent of dialethism.
Graham argues that liar's paradox is solved by claiming that statement:...
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Has anyone recast Aristotle's Law of Noncontradiction as a law of recontextualization?
Aristotle's Law of Noncontradiction (LNC) is translated in a variety of ways:
Let us next state what this principle is."It is impossible for the
same attribute at once to belong and not to ...
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Consequences in Buddhist theories of karma
Can't ask on the other stack, nor can I find the answer through google or my notes on what I've read.
Do Buddhists talk about the consequences of e.g. wrong action, and do they carry the same karmic ...
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Why is Sextus Empiricus not self-contradicting and where can I read about his works?
Firstly, Sextus states: "By way of preface let us say that on none of the matters to be discussed do we affirm that things certainly are just as we say they are: rather, we report descriptively ...
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conditioned and unconditioned realms
While reading The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh about mindfulness, I came upon this paragraph:
the Buddha taught the meditation on the Two Realms — the realm of the
conditioned (...
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What is the link between subvaluationism and Buddhism?
Sorry for the indefinite question, but I am confused. I know and have read some research into Buddhism and paraconsistent logic: what is the link with that and vagueness?
From the start, ...
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Was Nietzsche more compassionate than the Buddha's teaching?
I was chatting to a devout Buddhist about how difficult I am finding it to want to transfer merit to people that do evil acts. They replied that merit is just not something you can even do evil with, ...
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A problem regarding an impermanent hell
Regarding the Abrahamic hells, one could say that they are absolutely terrible for it is suffering without end, an eternal suffering; but there is a puzzling different type of hell or hells, those of ...
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Why isn't Buddha nature a soul?
I was thinking about 'soul' and whether what is problematic about it for many is less its permanence than its duality (reminded of my friend on the 'kingdom of heaven' "hey look, Jesus is over ...
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What is the "object of knowledge" in Buddhist theory of mind?
While reading The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh about mindfulness, I came upon this paragraph:
"Remember that the subject of knowledge cannot exist independently from the ...
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On the framing of causality?
So I shall restrict Nagarjuna's dependent arising of phenomena to the physical realm*. The source of my understanding is "Part Two, Chapter one - Examination of Conditions" of the book the ...
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How does the Buddhist pursue meaning?
So I don't think positions like existentialism exist in Buddhist philosophy. I say this because the whole framing of causality is fundamentally different in Nagarjuna's treatise of dependent ...
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