Moonshadows : conventional truth in Buddhist philosophy

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Moonshadows : conventional truth in Buddhist philosophy

the Cowherds

Oxford University Press, 2011

  • : pbk.

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Bibliography: p. [234]-243

Includes index

収録内容

  • An introduction to conventional truth / Guy Newland and Tom J.F. Tillemans
  • Taking conventional truth seriously: authority regarding deceptive reality / Jay L. Garfield
  • Prāsaṅgika epistemology in context / Sonam Thakchoe
  • Weighing the butter, levels of explanation and falsification: models of the conventional in Tsongkhapa's account of Madhyamaka / Guy Martin Newland
  • 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 Thakchoe
  • Can a Madhyamika be a skeptic? the case of Patsab Nyimadrak / Georges Dreyfus
  • Madhyamaka and classical Greek skepticism / Georges Dreyfus and Jay L. Garfield
  • The (two) truths about truth / Graham Priest, Mark Siderits and Tom J.F. Tillemans
  • How far can a Madhyamika Buddhist reform conventional truth? dismal relativism, fictionalism, easy-easy truth and the alternatives / Tom J.F. Tillemans
  • Is everything connected to everything else? what the gopīs know / Mark Siderits
  • Carnap's pragmatism and the two truths / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka
  • The merely conventional existence of the world / Jan Westerhoff
  • Two truths: two models / Graham Priest
  • Ethics for Madhyamikas / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The doctrine of the two truths - a conventional truth and an ultimate truth - is central to Buddhist metaphysics and epistemology. The two truths (or two realities), the distinction between them, and the relation between them is understood variously in different Buddhist schools; it is of special importance to the Madhyamaka school. One theory is articulated with particular force by Nagarjuna (2nd C CE) who famously claims that the two truths are identical to one another and yet distinct. One of the most influential interpretations of Nagarjuna's difficult doctrine derives from the commentary of Candrakarti (6th C CE). In view of its special soteriological role, much attention has been devoted to explaining the nature of the ultimate truth; less, however, has been paid to understanding the nature of conventional truth, which is often described as "deceptive," "illusion," or "truth for fools." But because of the close relation between the two truths in Madhyamaka, conventional truth also demands analysis. Moonshadows, the product of years of collaboration by ten cowherds engaged in Philosophy and Buddhist Studies, provides this analysis. The book asks, "what is true about conventional truth?" and "what are the implications of an understanding of conventional truth for our lives?" Moonshadows begins with a philosophical exploration of classical Indian and Tibetan texts articulating Candrakati's view, and uses this textual exploration as a basis for a more systematic philosophical consideration of the issues raised by his account.

目次

  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PREFACE
  • GUY NEWLAND AND TOM J F TILLEMANS
  • JAY L GARFIELD
  • SONAM THAKCHOE
  • GUY MARTIN NEWLAND
  • JAY L GARFIELD AND SONAM THAKCHOE
  • GEORGES DREYFUS
  • GEORGES DREYFUS AND JAY L GARFIELD
  • GRAHAM PRIEST, MARK SIDERITS AND TOM J F TILLEMANS
  • TOM J F TILLEMANS
  • MARK SIDERITS
  • BRONWYN FINNIGAN AND KOJI TANAKA
  • JAN WESTERHOFF
  • GRAHAM PRIEST
  • BRONWYN FINNIGAN AND KOJI TANAKA
  • REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • INDEX

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