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On the Nihilist Interpretation of Madhyamaka |
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Westerhoff, Jan (著)
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Journal of Indian Philosophy
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| Volume | v.44 n.2 |
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| Date | 2016.04 |
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| Pages | 337 - 376 |
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| Publisher | Springer |
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http://www.springer.com/gp/
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| Location | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliations: Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, Norham Gardens, Oxford OX2 6QA, UK |
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| Keyword | Madhyamaka; Nāgārjuna; Nihilism |
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| Abstract | Madhyamaka philosophy has been frequently characterized as nihilism, not just by its Buddhist and non-Buddhist opponents, but also by some contemporary Buddhologists. This characterization might well strike us as surprising. First, nihilism appears to be straightforwardly inconsistent ("if there is nothing, there is still the fact that there is nothing, so there is something"). It would be curious if a philosophical school holding such an obviously deficient view would have acquired the kind of importance Madhyamaka has acquired in the Asian intellectual landscape over the last two millenia. Second, Madhyamaka by its very name proclaims to tread the "middle way", and what if anything would count as an extreme position but the view that there is nothing? This essay addresses both the systematic status of nihilist theories as well as the historical contexts in which Madhyamaka has been characterized as nihilistic, aiming to throw some light on plausible and implausible ways of understanding the Madhyamaka intellectual enterprise. |
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| Table of contents | Madhyamaka as Nihilism: The Case Against 337
Characterizing Madhyamaka as Nihilism 340
Non-Buddhist Characterizations of Madhyamaka as Nihilism 340
Uddyotakara 341
Kumārila 342
Śaṅkara 343
Rāmānuja 344
Madhva 345
Mādhava 345
Buddhist Characterizations of Madhyamaka as Nihilism 346
Buddhological Characterizations of Madhyamaka as Nihilism 352
The Williams–Burton Argument 354
Sketching a Consistent Form of Nihilism 358
How This Form of Nihilism Differs from the Form the Mādhyamika Rejects 362
Nihilism as an Extreme View 362
Nihilism as Annihilationism 363
Nihilism as the Denial of Efficacy 364
Nihilism as a Reified Non-Existence 365
Nihilism as Moral Nihilism 366
Nihilism With and Without Problematic Consequences 369
A Metaphilosophical Reason for the Nihilist Interpretation 370 |
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| ISSN | 00221791 (P); 15730395 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10781-014-9266-z |
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| Hits | 242 |
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| Created date | 2019.10.15 |
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| Modified date | 2023.10.11 |
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