RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 21, 2016 at 7:14 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2016 at 7:16 pm by Gemini.)
@Rhythm
Google "Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy?" and you'll come across an endless succession of articles dealing with this as a serious question. Google "Is Christianity a religion or a philosophy?" and you'll mainly get skeptical websites which skewer anyone idiotic enough to claim that Christianity is a philosophy.
There really is no equivalence between them.
Next. I asked you to give me an eastern philosophical tradition fond of cavorting with karma. You gave me Hinduism and Buddhism.
What I mean by a "philosophical tradition" is something like Nyaya or Madhyamaka. Something connected with intellectuals like Nagarjuna, Chandrakirti, Dignaga, etc. Not very broad categories that apply to religion, philosophy, culture, art, etc.
Finally, for the purposes of this discussion, I don't care about the origin of science other than to point out that it wasn't strictly a western project. If you're worried that I'm trying to credit it to Gautama, don't. All I'm saying is that his philosophical tradition is acknowledged to be one rooted in skepticism and empiricism, and that it came to dominate eastern thought.
Google "Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy?" and you'll come across an endless succession of articles dealing with this as a serious question. Google "Is Christianity a religion or a philosophy?" and you'll mainly get skeptical websites which skewer anyone idiotic enough to claim that Christianity is a philosophy.
There really is no equivalence between them.
Next. I asked you to give me an eastern philosophical tradition fond of cavorting with karma. You gave me Hinduism and Buddhism.
What I mean by a "philosophical tradition" is something like Nyaya or Madhyamaka. Something connected with intellectuals like Nagarjuna, Chandrakirti, Dignaga, etc. Not very broad categories that apply to religion, philosophy, culture, art, etc.
Finally, for the purposes of this discussion, I don't care about the origin of science other than to point out that it wasn't strictly a western project. If you're worried that I'm trying to credit it to Gautama, don't. All I'm saying is that his philosophical tradition is acknowledged to be one rooted in skepticism and empiricism, and that it came to dominate eastern thought.
