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Buddhism As A Philosophical Tradition
- Buddhism includes standard philosophical questions like metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology alongside religious practices.
- Graham Priest notes Buddhism lacks revealed theology, so practitioners must reason and verify for themselves.
No Permanent Self
- Buddhism denies a permanent self and compares persons to composite objects like cars that change over time.
- The self is treated as a convenient convention, not an ontological constituent.
Meditation Mirrors Cognitive Science
- Buddhist meditational practice reveals the transient nature of mental events and dissolves the illusion of a unitary self.
- Priest links this to modern cognitive science showing no single control centre in the mind.