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HPI 09 - Suffering and Smiling - the Buddha

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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The Dharma of the Self

Buddhists want to critique our everyday assumptions about the reality of persons and other things. That leaves a lot of room for them to accept less metaphysically ambitious notions of the self. You don't need to accept the reality of a permanent self to believe that there is some sense in which you are the same person who started listening to this podcast a few minutes ago.

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