Pyrrhonian Buddhism
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Author |
: Adrian Kuzminski |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 103 |
Release |
: 2021-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000350074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100035007X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pyrrhonian Buddhism by : Adrian Kuzminski
Pyrrhonian Buddhism reconstructs the path to enlightenment shared both by early Buddhists and the ancient Greek sceptics inspired by Pyrrho of Elis, who may have had extended contacts with Buddhists when he accompanied Alexander the Great to India in the third century BCE. This volume explores striking parallels between early Buddhism and Pyrrhonian scepticism, suggesting their virtual identity. Both movements saw beliefs—fictions mistaken for truths—as the principal source of human suffering. Both practiced suspension of judgment about beliefs to obtain release from suffering, and to achieve enlightenment, which the Buddhists called bodhi and the Pyrrhonists called ataraxia. And both came to understand the structure of human experience without belief, which the Buddhists called dependent origination and the Pyrrhonists described as phenomenalistic atomism. This book is intended for the general reader, as well as historians, classicists, Buddhist scholars, philosophers, and practitioners of spiritual techniques.
Author |
: Adrian Kuzminski |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2008-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739131398 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739131397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pyrrhonism by : Adrian Kuzminski
Pyrrhonism is commonly confused with scepticism in Western philosophy. Unlike sceptics, who believe there are no true beliefs, Pyrrhonists suspend judgment about all beliefs, including the belief that there are no true beliefs. Pyrrhonism was developed by a line of ancient Greek philosophers, from its founder Pyrrho of Elis in the fourth century BCE through Sextus Empiricus in the second century CE. Pyrrhonists offer no view, theory, or knowledge about the world, but recommend instead a practice, a distinct way of life, designed to suspend beliefs and ease suffering. Adrian Kuzminski examines Pyrrhonism in terms of its striking similarity to some Eastern non-dogmatic soteriological traditions-particularly Madhyamaka Buddhism. He argues that its origin can plausibly be traced to the contacts between Pyrrho and the sages he encountered in India, where he traveled with Alexander the Great. Although Pyrrhonism has not been practiced in the West since ancient times, its insights have occasionally been independently recovered, most recently in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Kuzminski shows that Pyrrhonism remains relevant perhaps more than ever as an antidote to today's cultures of belief.
Author |
: Christopher I. Beckwith |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2017-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691176321 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691176329 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Buddha by : Christopher I. Beckwith
Presents a history of early Buddhism based solely on dateable artefacts and archaeology rather than received tradition, much of which data is provided by studying Pyrrho's history
Author |
: Christopher I. Beckwith |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2015-06-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400866328 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400866324 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Buddha by : Christopher I. Beckwith
How a Greek philosopher's encounters with Buddhism in Central Asia influenced Western philosophy Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334–324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian scepticism in ancient Greece. Christopher I. Beckwith traces the origins of a major tradition in Western philosophy to Gandhara, a country in Central Asia and northwestern India. He systematically examines the teachings and practices of Pyrrho and of Early Buddhism, including those preserved in testimonies by and about Pyrrho, in the report on Indian philosophy two decades later by the Seleucid ambassador Megasthenes, in the first-person edicts by the Indian king Devanampriya Priyadarsi referring to a popular variety of the Dharma in the early third century BC, and in Taoist echoes of Gautama's Dharma in Warring States China. Beckwith demonstrates how the teachings of Pyrrho agree closely with those of the Buddha Sakyamuni, "the Scythian Sage." In the process, he identifies eight distinct philosophical schools in ancient northwestern India and Central Asia, including Early Zoroastrianism, Early Brahmanism, and several forms of Early Buddhism. He then shows the influence that Pyrrho's brand of scepticism had on the evolution of Western thought, first in Antiquity, and later, during the Enlightenment, on the great philosopher and self-proclaimed Pyrrhonian, David Hume. Greek Buddha demonstrates that through Pyrrho, Early Buddhist thought had a major impact on Western philosophy.
Author |
: Richard Bett |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2019-03-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108471077 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108471072 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Be a Pyrrhonist by : Richard Bett
Explores what it was like to argue and to live as a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism.
Author |
: Douglas C. Bates |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2020-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1896559565 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781896559568 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pyrrho's Way by : Douglas C. Bates
PYRRHO'S WAY lays out the Pyrrhonist path for modern readers, giving clear guidance on how to apply Pyrrhonist practice to everyday life to achieve inner peace. If Buddhist wisdom has ever appealed to you, but you found Buddhism's paradoxes and endless hours of meditation to be a barrier, Pyrrhonism is for you.
Author |
: Klaas Vieweg |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2020-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004429277 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004429271 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idealism of Freedom by : Klaas Vieweg
In The Idealism of Freedom, Klaus Vieweg argues for a Hegelian turn in philosophy. Hegel's idealism of freedom contains a number of epoch-making ideas that articulate a new understanding of freedom, which still shape contemporary philosophy. Hegel establishes a modern logic, as well as the idea of a social state. With his distinction between civil society and the state he makes an innovative contribution to political philosophy. Hegel defends the idea of freedom for all in a modern society and is a sharp critic of every nationalism and racism. Vieweg's study introduces these ideas into perspectives on freedom in contemporary philosophy.
Author |
: Stephen Batchelor |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2015-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300216226 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030021622X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis After Buddhism by : Stephen Batchelor
Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts? Stephen Batchelor, an internationally known author and teacher, is committed to a secularized version of the Buddha’s teachings. The time has come, he feels, to articulate a coherent ethical, contemplative, and philosophical vision of Buddhism for our age. After Buddhism, the culmination of four decades of study and practice in the Tibetan, Zen, and Theravada traditions, is his attempt to set the record straight about who the Buddha was and what he was trying to teach. Combining critical readings of the earliest canonical texts with narrative accounts of five members of the Buddha’s inner circle, Batchelor depicts the Buddha as a pragmatic ethicist rather than a dogmatic metaphysician. He envisions Buddhism as a constantly evolving culture of awakening whose long survival is due to its capacity to reinvent itself and interact creatively with each society it encounters. This original and provocative book presents a new framework for understanding the remarkable spread of Buddhism in today’s globalized world. It also reminds us of what was so startling about the Buddha’s vision of human flourishing.
Author |
: Jay L. Garfield |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190933401 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190933402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Concealed Influence of Custom by : Jay L. Garfield
This volume provides a reading of Hume's Treatise as a whole, foregrounding Hume's understanding of custom and its role in the Treatise. It shows that Hume grounds his understanding of custom in its usage in English legal theory, and that he takes custom to be the foundation for normativity in all of its guises, whether moral, epistemic, or social. The book argues that Hume's project in the Treatise is to provide a socially inflected cognitive science--to understand how persons are constituted through an interaction of individual psychology and their social matrix--and that custom provides the ligature that ties together Hume's naturalism and skepticism. In doing so, it shows that Hume is a consistent Pyrrhonian skeptic, but that he takes the positive part of the skeptical program seriously, showing not only that our practices have no foundation, but that they need none, and that custom alone serves to explain and to justify our practices. (Resumen editorial).
Author |
: Cowherds (Authors) |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199751433 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199751439 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Moonshadows by : Cowherds (Authors)
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.