Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is one of the most important Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical texts. Jan Westerhoff offers a new translation, reflecting thebest 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 groundedin historical and textual scholarship and connected explicitly to contemporary philosophical concerns. INDICE: 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
- ISBN: 978-0-19-973269-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 152
- Fecha Publicación: 13/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés