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HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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The Dissolving Analysis of the Madhyamaka Project

Madhyamaka project is very interesting and unique in that it applies the dissolving analysis of everything with Zvabava to its own theory. So you end up with a theory that says that there is no ultimately true theory or no ultimately true account of the world. We might wonder okay so is that still an ontological theory or philosophical theory given that we often think that these theories are precisely meant to tell us what what is ultimately like? Nagarajuna responds to that by saying no my claim that everything is empty is also emptyYes he's that that is a dilemma that is that is proposed by the opponent of the Madhyamaka.

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