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From Nescience to Science: Buddhist Reflections on Human/Nature

Published:2024-07-21 Issue:7 Volume:15 Page:873
ISSN:2077-1444
Container-title:Religions
language:en
Short-container-title:Religions

Author:

Duckworth Douglas S.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Religion, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA

Abstract

A Buddhist system of two truths provides a descriptive framework with criteria for what counts as real in contrast to what does not. This paper looks at the relationship between these two truths in the works of two seventh-century Indian philosophers, Dharmakīrti and Candrakīrti, and draws implications for comparison and contrast with modern scientific understandings of the world. It highlights important features of Dharmakīrti’s epistemology that aim to circumvent cultural conventions in a way that resonates with scientific representations of knowledge. It also contrasts this approach with one inspired by Candrakīrti in order to argue for the place of ethics and persons in a hybrid Buddhist–scientific picture of the world.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/7/873/pdf

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