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HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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The Negative Side of Nagar Juna's Ontology

The Madhyamaka conception of conventional reality rejects an ultimately exist in art man but also conventionally real art. If I come into accept not only that I have no enduring self but that chocolate cake has no enduring reality then it may help me to lose my attachment to eating chocolate cake is that the idea? In a trope is just a particular instance of a universal actually like this red or this particular right property yes so there would be a connection to Buddhist ethical teaching or liberation because if I come intoaccept not only thatI have no enduringSelf but that Chocolate Cake has no enduringreality then it might help me to losing my attachment to eat chocolate cake. That is one way of reading it of

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