Buddhism and Modern Physics, Vol 2: Scholarly Edition: From individuals to relations (Buddhism and Modern Science) by Robert Paul

Author:Robert Paul [Paul, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Philosophy
Published: 2017-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

D.3.Dialogue with a Prasaṅgika

Here is an extended comment from a personal communication, 2011, with Jay Garfield, along with my current responses:

Here is one way to contextualize what I am going to say: Remember that Śāntideva is a Prasaṅgika Mādhyamika. He therefore accepts the view that emptiness is empty. As Candrakīrti puts the point, emptiness is not itself the nature of things, it is the absence of any nature in things. Keep this in mind. For Śāntideva is not arguing that the parts of a thing have a particular nature (emptiness), and therefore that the wholes they constitute have that nature. THAT would be reductionist. Instead, he is arguing AGAINST reductionism that because there ARE NO ULTIMATE PARTS, and since no parts have ANY nature, that you CAN'T get the nature of a thing by finding the nature of its parts and building up. He is an ANTI-REDUCTIONIST, which is not surprising, since Madhyamaka is often (correctly, in my view) seen as a critique of the reductionist project of Abhidharma.

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