Wynne, Alexander (2015) Early Buddhist Teaching as Proto-Sunyavada. Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 6. pp. 213-241. ISSN 2047-1076 (Submitted)
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Abstract
"Early Buddhist Teaching as Proto-siinyavida
Alexander Wynne
This article argues that the search for a metaphysical foundation to early
Buddhist thought is futile. For if the world of experience is a cognitive
construction, as implied in a number of early discourses, it follows that
thought cannot transcend its limits, and cannot attain an objective picture
of reality. Despite this sceptical anti-realism, the Buddha's focus on the
causes of suffering also suggests that phenomena - although constructed
and ultimately unreal - follow a regular order, and so are in some sense
objectively real. Two orientations to the Buddha's Dhamma can thus be
identified, 'anti-realism' and 'constructed realism', which are roughly
equivalent to what the canonical teachings term 'no view' and 'correct
view'."
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Buddhist Studies |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Lauren Whiston |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Apr 2016 14:52 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2024 14:42 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/1044 |
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