The Influence of Indian Thought on Philosophy in Europe

Nagarduna is reminiscent of the equally radical and methodologically scrupulous sextus empiricus, a greek thinker who also lived in the second century. The upanishads do not recommend idle theoretical speculation or technical virtuosity for its own sake. Even nagarduna's radical scepticism was offered as a means to achieve the corps buddhist goal of avoiding suffering. For buddhists, the good life is one of detachment from worldly things. And what could lead to this better than coming to see them as unreal that there is a highest good? That practising philosophy is a constitutive part of it, something embedded in the good life. This is not what