
HPI 47 - Jan Westerhoff on Nagarjuna
History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
Nagarjuna and the Cognitive Component of Svavava
Svavava is a cognitive default that we project on to the world automatically when we perceive anything. Nagarjuna's philosophy is supposed to try to train us out of that and to remove this kind of intuitive and default superimposition of seeing the word in terms of Svabava. Madhyamaka takes further the development of the Buddha's idea of selflessness, he says.
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