RE: Is the idea of self a coherent concept?
January 1, 2017 at 10:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2017 at 11:06 am by Angrboda.)
I'm not sure what you're asking. Is it, "Is the self a coherent concept," or rather, "Is the self an illusory concept?" I think as a concept, it's coherent, depending upon what one means by it. According to what I understand of the Buddhist concept of Anatta, the self is conceptually an unchanging, constant identity. I don't think that's so much incoherent as it is just one, probably false, conception of the self.