PHIL 3910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: False Dilemma, Impermanence, Madhyamaka

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 3910
• Professor: Kenneth Dorter

Document Summary

So, he argues that the origin of everything is dependent, so nothing is self-subsistent, so he implies emptiness. He wants to show that it is inadequate to show things as they really are, because we don"t have the words for them. He wants to prove the basic tenets of buddhism. First chapter most difficult read interpretation on courselink. Chapter 1 #2: objects (of perception, immediate = by which cause produces an effect, dominant = purpose of something. Both answers wrong the middle way is between absolutism (everything exists in absolute sense) and nihilism (nothing exists), called emptiness. Between being an absolutely individual thing, and being nothing. Wave is an example of an individual; it is temporary, rises out from something larger and reduces itself to something larger. In the past, but the past doesn"t exist: if something isn"t born, it can"t stop/die, go back to #5, everything ceases to be what it was before.