Emptiness Appraised

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Emptiness Appraised

A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy

East Asian and Indian philosophy Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Mahayana Buddhism

Author: David F. Burton

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Collection: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 23rd October 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 14 Mb

ISBN: 9781317723226


Emptiness

Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown to be unconvincing.

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