RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 24, 2016 at 6:11 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2016 at 6:12 pm by Gemini.)
(May 24, 2016 at 8:24 am)Rhythm Wrote: You have refused to consider any of the mountains of credulous and non skeptical things presented to you both in your lone example of an eastern tradition, and the links describing the wider eastern tradition, already provided to you.
You already know that I deny neither skeptical western philosophers nor non-skeptical eastern philosophers. Perhaps you will find the following links salient to this discussion:
"There is unanimous agreement that Nāgārjuna (ca 150–250 AD) is the most important Buddhist philosopher after the historical Buddha himself ... with the spread of Buddhism to Tibet, China, Japan and other Asian countries the writings of Nāgārjuna became an indispensable point of reference for their own philosophical inquiries." (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nagarjuna/)
"Nagarjuna was considered a skeptic in his own philosophical tradition, both by Brahmanical opponents and Buddhist readers, and this because he called into question the basic categorical presuppositions and criteria of proof assumed by almost everyone in the Indian tradition to be axiomatic." (http://www.iep.utm.edu/nagarjun/)
And I'm assuming I don't need to restate my observation that a philosopher who was notoriously non-skeptical of metaphysics was at least as influential within western philosophy.
So the question is not whether you can find a western philosopher who was a skeptic in order to make the opposite claim as me "by reference to the very same metrics." The question is whether you can find a western skeptic who had an impact in that tradition comparable to the impact Nagarjuna had on eastern philosophy.
A Gemma is forever.