Crossing the stream, leaving the cave : Buddhist-Platonist philosophical inquiries / edited by Amber D. Carpenter, Pierre-Julien Harter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carpenter, Amber D., editor.

Harter, Pierre-Julien, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Buddhist philosophy.

Neoplatonism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave' brings philosophers from two of the world's great philosophical traditions - Platonic and Indian Buddhist - into joint inquiry on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, mind, language, and ethics. An international team of scholars address selected questions of mutual concern to Buddhist and Platonist.

Contents:

Cover

Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Buddhist-Platonist Philosophical Inquiries

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

List of Primary Texts

Introduction: Doing Philosophy between Worlds: Creative Exchanges between Indian Buddhist and Platonic Philosophers

1. Creating Exchanges

2. History of Philosophy as Philosophy, Without Borders

3. Clarity and Parity

4. The Buddhist-Platonist Inquiries in This Volume: The Interlocutors, Their Questions and Concerns

Acknowledgements

Works Cited

1: Explanation or Insight? Competing Transformative Epistemic Ideals

I. Transformation through Knowledge of Reality

II. Plato's Ethical Epistemology

III. Plato's Criticism of Perception

IV. Dignāga's Ideal Knowledge

V. Ethical Transformations of Ideal Cognition

VI. Conclusion

Works Cited

2: Dreaming, Perception, and Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus and Vasubandhu's Twenty Verses

1. Dreaming and Philosophy

2. Dreaming and Perception in the Theaetetus

3. Metaphysical Implications of Dreaming for Protagoreanism

4. Dreaming, Perceiving, and External Objects

5. Vasubandhu on the Causal Continuity between Dreaming and Waking

6. Waking Up: How Perception Can Be Knowledge for Vasubandhu

7. A Problem for Protagoreanism

3: Causal Pluralism in Vasubandhu and Plato

1. Vasubandhu

2. Plato

3. Conclusion

4: Unity and Predication in Plato's Parmenides and Nāgārjuna's Root Verses

1. Whether One Is or Is Not . . . : Unity and Contradiction

2. Analyzing Predication and Overcoming Unity

3. Critical Consequences: Against Hierarchy

4. Conclusion: Rejecting Unity and Finding Peace

5: Plato's Catuṣkoṭi and Nāgārjuna's Parmenides

I. Structure and Use of the Tetralemma in the Root Verses

II. The Catuṣkoṭi at Work in the Parmenides

III. Refutation ( Elenchos) in the Parmenides and in the Root Verses

IV. The One, the Good, and Bilateral Negation in Plato

V. Conclusion

6: Paradox, Not Contradiction: Discursive Accounts of the Non-Discursive in Plotinus and Bhāviveka

I. Analysis of Plotinus' Treatise 31.6

1. Context

2. Analysis of the Passage

3. Comparing the Non-discursive and Discursive Approaches

II. Bhāviveka and the Two Aspects of Ultimate Truth

1. Trust and Suspicion toward Language

2. Making Sense of the Two Aspects of the Ultimate

III. Conclusion: Saying Anyway What Cannot Be Said

7: Know Thy Knowing: On the Reflexive Form of Self-knowledge

1. Open-ended Debate or Advocacy?

2. Self-knowledge: With or without a Self?

3. On the Character of Self-knowledge and Its Limitations

4. Reflexivity and the "Impersonal Self" Interpretation

5. Abhidharma Reductionism and the Luminosity of the Mind

6. Experiential Mineness without Deceptive Grasping

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical records and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 11, 2024).

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Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-199047-7

OCLC:

1425894103