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HPI 12 - Rupert Gethin on Buddhism and the Self

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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The No Self Theory and Moral Responsibility

Buddhism is committed to continuity and it has to preserve some sense of continuity. The question is whether the causal connections are sufficient. Buddhism claims that it avoids both these extremes by reference to the causal connections that hold things together. This concept of dependent relation these links between these things these are meant to be the middle way between these two extremes.

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