![]() (Buddhists object to being called monists, but all their objects can be made by every other monist, all of whom are still monists. The Mahayana sects just realize that that's an infinite regress, and so fall back on extreme apophasis, advaita-which is a type of monism. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Buddhist conception of causation (the interdependent origination) is extremely complicated, but they're more materialist than not-being atomist nominalists whose metaphysics is called "inanimate" ( anatman, same Indo-European roots) for a reason. Put that together and you have one unlucky day. You watch out for winger Brandon Tanev, who is the fastest on the ice even in warmups, doing herky-jerky figure eights with no. One version of the origin of this superstition is that Judas Iscariot was the 13th guest at the Last Supper and Jesus was crucified on a Friday. Hence the "ice cream koan": "If you have 'no ice cream,' I will take it if I have 'no ice cream', I will give it to you." One of the most basic things koans are for is to get you to stop reifying privations. Ed Feser, The Last Superstition Still, for as much as Feser tries to direct his style and tone to a wide audience, I would counsel caution. The web of superstitions fit together like a puzzle eventually. Indeed, in Buddhism, the very idea of negation (which would include "nothing") is considered unreal, since "not-A" is only a thought-in-relation-to-"A". ![]() The thing in Buddhism that you're thinking of isn't nothingness. ![]()
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