Jan Westerhoff

The Dispeller of Disputes

Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani

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Produktbeschreibung

Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is one of the most important Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical texts. Jan Westerhoff offers a new translation, reflecting the best current philological research and all available editions, and adds his own philosophical commentary on the text. His nuanced, philosophically sophisticated commentary explains Nagarjuna's arguments in a way that is both grounded in historical and textual scholarship and connected explicitly to contemporaryphilosophical concerns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780199732708
• ISBN-10: 0199732701
• Artikelnr.: 30206757

Autorenporträt

Jan Westerhoff is Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Durham

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Introduction
2.: Text
3.: Commentary
4.: The status of the theory of emptiness
5.: The Madhyamaka dilemma
6.: The sound analogy
7.: The no-thesis view
8.: Epistemology
9.: Establishing the epistemic instruments
10.: The fire analogy
11.: The epistemic instruments as self-established
12.: Epistemic instruments and their objects
13.: The father-son analogy
14.: Summary
15.: Intrinsically good things
16.: Names without objects
17.: Extrinsic substances
18.: Negation and existence
19.: The mirage analogy
20.: Emptiness and reasons
21.: Negation and temporal relations
22.: Conclusion
Bibliography