HPI 51 - Change of Mind - Vasubandhu and Yogacara Buddhism
October 15, 2017
Vasubandhu’s path to Yogācāra Buddhism, a form of idealism which holds that nothing can be mind-independent.
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HPI 50 - Marie-Hélène Gorisse on Jain Epistemology
October 1, 2017
We're joined by Marie-Hélène Gorisse for a look at the Jain theory of knowledge.
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HPI 49 - Well Qualified - the Jains on Truth
September 17, 2017
Does the Jain theory of seven predications (saptabhaṇgī) land them in self-contradiction, or help them to avoid it?
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HPI 48 - Taking Perspective - the Jain Theory of Standpoints
August 6, 2017
The Jain theory of standpoints or non-onesidedness (anekāntavāda) makes truth a matter of perspective.
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HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna
July 23, 2017
A discussion with Jan Westerhoff, an expert on the great Buddhist thinker Nāgārjuna.
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HPI 46 - No Four Ways About It - Nagarjuna’s Tetralemma
July 9, 2017
Nāgārjuna’s four-fold argument scheme, the tetralemma (catuṣkoṭi).
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HPI 45 - Motion Denied - Nagarjuna on Change
June 25, 2017
Nāgārjuna applies his emptiness theory to motion, change, and cognition.
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HPI 44 - It All Depends - Nagarjuna on Emptiness
June 11, 2017
Nāgārjuna founds the Madhyāmaka (“middle way”) Buddhist tradition by “relinquishing all views” and arguing that everything is “empty.”
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HPI 43 - We Beg to Differ - the Buddhists and Jains
May 28, 2017
An introduction to philosophical developments in Buddhism and Jainism up to the time of Dignāga in the sixth century AD.
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HPI 42 - In Good Taste - The Aesthetics of Rasa
May 14, 2017
Bharata’s Nāṭya-Śāstra and later works from Kashmir explore the idea of rasa, an emotional response to drama, music, and poetry.
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