Empty Words by Jay L. Garfield
Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation
A collection of essays that develops a rigorous, accessible account of Buddhist philosophy—especially the Madhyamaka doctrine of emptiness and the two truths—while engaging with contemporary analytic debates about meaning, reference, and ontology. It clarifies how notions of selflessness, conventional reality, and dependent origination avoid both nihilism and metaphysical realism, and explores implications for ethics and the philosophy of mind. Along the way, it offers a methodological reflection on translation and cross-cultural interpretation, arguing for careful, philosophically informed engagement between Asian and Western traditions.
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- Published
- 1979
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 300-350 pages
- Original Language
- English
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