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HPI 44 - It All Depends - Nagarjuna on Emptiness

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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Nagarjuna and the Middle Way Philosophy

Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka teaching collapses into self-refutation. He is just a thoroughgoing skeptic, like his near-contemporary the Greek skeptic sexist empiricists. His sole aim is to undermine the concepts and theories of other philosophers. The theory of emptiness would allow us to see things are right by exposing their interdependence.

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