Engaging Buddhism by Jay L. Garfield
Why It Matters to Philosophy
A cross-cultural philosophical inquiry arguing that Buddhist thought should be taken as a live interlocutor in contemporary debates, it explores how ideas of emptiness, dependent origination, and the absence of a self bear on metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, language, and ethics. By reading figures like Nāgārjuna, Dignāga, Dharmakīrti, and Śāntideva alongside analytic philosophy, it challenges essentialist assumptions, clarifies the two truths, and advances a pragmatic conventionalism that grounds compassion and responsibility without positing intrinsic natures.
- Published
- 2015
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 328-352
- Original Language
- English
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