Affiliation:
1. Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract
While Buddhist teachings deny the presence of a stable, unchanging self, they must still make sense of human agency. In this article, I look through metaphors of mechanical men in Buddhist literature, which inform us of attempts to tackle the problem by resorting to figurative speech. With a selection of examples, we shall see not only a basic rationale of these metaphors, as well as the dynamics of their usage in Buddhist texts against different doctrinal backgrounds, but also their meta-philosophical role in penetrating through the agent-oriented “universe of discourse”.
Funder
National Social Science Foundation of China
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