1 Freedom and Causal Exhaustion – West (Kant) and East (Buddhism)2 Defending Kant's Transcendental Idealism on the Thesis3 The Mādhyamaka-Yogācāra Conflict4 The Epistemic Situation Talks Does Freedom Contradict Causal Exhaustion?– A Critical-Epistemological Resolution KU-NCCU Graduate Roundtable on Asian Philosophy 2015.3.20Gustav Chun-Ying WANGupdated 2015/03/18updated 2015/03/17If one wants the empirical reality, one has to (1) admit freedom (viz., self-awareness in Dignāga) and (2) give up the world in itself as ultimate cause (viz., Nāgārjuna). Then, one has to admit (1) epistemology is prior to ontology and (2) practice (freedom) is prior to theory (cognitive
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Transcendental Logic and Spiritual Development – Following Dignāga's and Kant's Critical Epistemology 2016/12/12
Transcendental Logic and Spiritual Development – Following Dignāga's and Kant's Critical Epistemology 2016/12/121. Inference vs. dialectics/ prasaṅgaA proposition whose subject is not presently cognized can be established via two kinds of employment……
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Itsuki's Notes on Chapter 1, “The Unavoidable Void: Nonexistence, Absence, and Emptiness” by Arindam Chakrabarti
1. The Conclusion and the author’s stance regarding EmptinessChakrabarti’s thesis is clear: absence is real, and qualms about its reality are due to the failure to distinguish between not-being (absence) and non-being. However, his conclusion is……
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Itsuki's Notes on Introduction by Jeelou Liu and Douglas L. Berger
1. Representational accuracy of the IntroductionSome general claims have been challenged. Firstly, is there a clear distinction between western philosophy and Asian philosophy, such that western philosophy began with investigation of being and existence,……
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Prof. Deguchi's Comments on Koji Tanaka, "In Search of the Semantics of Emptiness"
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Nāgārjuna's reconciliation of the Buddhist empty-existence conflict by means of catuṣkoṭi and prasajya-pratiṣeda
Nāgārjuna (150 – 250 C.E.) is believed to originate from South India. At his time, Buddhism in India faces a big split between the school of emptiness in the south (Mahāsaṃghika 大眾部, a branch which is believed by modern scholars to be the initial development……
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Re: Nāgārjuna's reconciliation of the Buddhist empty-existence conflict by means of catuṣkoṭi and prasajya-pratiṣeda
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Provisional English translation of one passage in《教迦旃延經》, anticipating comments and criticism
Saṃyuktāgama《雜阿含經》(T02n0099_p0085c17(00)~p0086a03(10))Chinese text: 佛告[跳-兆+散]陀迦旃延：「世間有二種依，若有、若無，為取所觸。取所觸故，或依有、或依無。若無此取者心境繫著，使不取、不住、不計我，苦生而生，苦滅而滅，於彼不疑、不惑，不由於他而自知，是名正見，是名如來所施設正見。所以者何？世間集如實正知見，若世間無者不有，世間滅如實正知見，若世間有者無有，是名離於二邊說於中道…」 Buddha told……