Logical and Scientific Method in Early Buddhist Texts
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Published:1968-01
Issue:1
Volume:100
Page:54-64
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ISSN:0035-869X
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Container-title:Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
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language:en
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Short-container-title:J.R. Asiat. Soc. G.B. Irel.
Abstract
By rejecting animism and ritualism and emphasizing a rational outlook which treats reality as a causally and functionally determined system of plural synergies (saṁskāras), the emergence of Buddhism marks an important event in the history of Indian thought. The most distinctive feature of Buddhist ethics is its freedom from theism, which leaves room for rationalism and rules out submission to some superhuman power controlling the world-process. Prior to the advent of Buddhism even theUpaniṣadswere not completely free from theistic influence in their speculations. It is proposed here to point to the Buddhist contribution to the growth of scientific outlook and methodology in India.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Arts and Humanities,Cultural Studies
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