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Cowherds
Moonshadows : conventional truth in Buddhist philosophy / the Cowherds. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - ca. 272 S.
ISBN 978-0-19-975142-6 (hardcover)
US$ 99,00
ISBN 978-0-19-975143-3 (pbk.)
US$ 35,00
DDC: 121.0882943
-- Angekündigt für November 2010 --

Beschreibung
The doctrine of the two truths--a conventional truth and an ultimate truth--is central to Buddhist metaphysics and epistemology. The two truths (or two realities), the distinction between them, and the relation between them is understood variously in different Buddhist schools and is of special importance to the Madhyamaka school. The fundamental ideas are articulated with particular force by Nagarjuna (2nd--3rd century CE) who famously claims that the two truths are identical to one another, and yet distinct. One of the most influential interpretations of Nagarjuna's difficult doctrine derives from the commentary of Candrakirti (6th century CE). While much attention has been devoted to explaining the nature of the ultimate truth in view of its special soteriological role, less has been paid to understanding the nature of conventional truth, which is often described as "deceptive," "illusion," or "truth for fools." But conventional truth is nonetheless truth. This book therefore asks, "what is true about conventional truth?" and "What are the implications of an understanding of conventional truth for our lives?" [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Guy Newland and Tom J.F. Tillemans:
An introduction to conventional truth
2. Jay L. Garfield:
Taking conventional truth seriously: authority regarding deceptive reality
3. Sonam Thakchoe:
Prāsaṅgika epistemology in context
4. Guy Martin Newland:
Weighing the butter, levels of explanation and falsification: models of the conventional in Tsongkhapa’s account of Madhyamaka
5. Jay L. Garfield and Sonam Thakchoe:
Identifying the object of negation and the status of conventional truth: why the dgag bya matters so much to Tibetan Madhyamikas
6. Georges Dreyfus:
Can a Madhyamika be a skeptic? the case of Patsab Nyimadrak
7. Georges Dreyfus and Jay L. Garfield:
Madhyamaka and classical Greek skepticism
8. Graham Priest, Mark Siderits and Tom J.F. Tillemans:
The (two) truths about truth
9. Tom J.F. Tillemans:
How far can a Madhyamika Buddhist reform conventional truth? dismal relativism, fictionalism, easy-easy truth and the alternatives
10. Mark Siderits:
Is everything connected to everything else? what the gopi's know
11. Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka:
Carnap’s pragmatism and the two truths
12. Jan Westerhoff:
The merely conventional existence of the world
13. Graham Priest:
Two truths: two models
14. Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka:
Ethics for Madhyamikas
References and Abbreviations
Index

Die Autoren
The Cowherds are scholars of Buddhist studies from the United States, Great Britain, Switzerland, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. They are united by a commitment to rigorous philosophical analysis as an approach to understanding Buddhist metaphysics and epistemology, and to the union of philology and philosophy in the service of greater understanding of the Buddhist tradition and its insights.
   They are: Georges Dreyfus, Bronwyn Finnigan, Jay L. Garfield, Guy Martin Newland, Graham Priest, Mark Siderits, Koji Tanaka, Sonam Thakchoe, Tom Tillemans, and Jan Westerhoff.

Quellen: Oxford University Press (USA); Library of Congress; Amazon; WorldCat

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