Moonshadows: conventional truth in buddhist philosophy

Moonshadows: conventional truth in buddhist philosophy

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In Moonshadows, the Cowherds, a team of ten scholars of Buddhist Studies, address the nature of conventional truth as it is understood in the Madhyamaka tradition deriving from Nagarjuna and Candrakarti. Moonshadows combines textual scholarship with philosophical analysis to elucidate the metaphysical, epistemological and ethical consequences of this doctrine. INDICE: Acknowledgments; Preface; 1.: An Introduction to Conventional Truth; Guy Newland and Tom J F Tillemans; 2.: Taking Conventional Truth Seriously: Authority Regarding Deceptive Reality; Jay L Garfield; 3.: Prasangika Epistemology in Context; Sonam Thakchöe; 4.: Weighing the Butter, Levels of Explanation and Falsification: Models of the Conventional in Tsongkhapa's Account ofMadhyamaka; Guy Martin Newland; 5.: Identifying the Object of Negation and the Status of Conventional Truth: Why the dgag bya Matters So Much to Tibetan Madhyamikas; Jay L Garfield and Sonam Thakchöe; 6.: Can a Madhyamaka be a Skeptic? The Case of Patsab Nyimadrak; Georges Dreyfus; 7.: Madhyamaka and ClassicalGreek Skepticism; Georges Dreyfus and Jay L Garfield; 8.: The (Two) Truths about Truth; Graham Priest, Mark Siderits and Tom J F Tillemans; 9.: How Far cana Madhyamika Buddhist Reform Conventional Truth? Dismal Relativism, Fictionalism, Easy-easy Truth and the Alternatives; Tom J F Tillemans; 10.: Is Everything Connected to Everything Else? What the Gopis Know; Mark Siderits; 11.: Carnap's Pragmatism and the Two Truths; Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka; 12.: TheMerely Conventional Existence of the World; Jan Westerhoff; 13.: Two Truths: Two Models; Graham Priest; 14.: Ethics for Madhyamikas; Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka; References and Abbreviations; Index

  • ISBN: 978-0-19-975143-3
  • Editorial: Oxford University
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 272
  • Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés