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| Causality in Buddhist Philosophy：Reflections on Social and Political Ideals in Buddhist Philosophy | ||
| 作者 | Pande, G. C. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | A Companion to World Philosophies |
| 出版日期 | 2017.08 |
| 頁次 | 370 - 380 |
| 出版者 | Blackwell Publishing |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ ; http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/default.htm |
| 出版地 | Malden, MA, US [莫爾登, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 專題研究論文=Research Paper |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | SOCIETY; CAUSATION; PHILOSOPHY; CAUSALITY; POLITICS |
| 摘要 | The Buddhist philosophy of causality is primarily a theory (naya) of the human world. Its methodology, however, is objective and critical. It rejects the weight of mere authority or tradition, relies upon experience and reason, and emphasizes the critical examination and verification of all opinions. Although the Buddhist conception of knowledge and truth has a strong empirical and pragmatic bias (cf. Nyāya-bindu 1.1), its conception of experience does not exclude introspection, rational intuition or mystical intuition (cf. Nyāya-bindu 1.7–11). Although its conception of reason creates a logical gulf between reason and experience, the gulf is bridged by a transcendental illusion (avidyā). Its employment of reason is highly analytical and it seeks to discover the ultimate elements constituting the structures of objects and experience. The constituent elements as the locus of causation are regarded as more real than their composite structures – dharma, dhātu or kṣana as contrasted with saṅghāta or santāna. At the same time, it raises dialectical questions and seriously considers the possibility of the empirical world being merely a working illusion. It discounts the apparent stability of objects, stressing their transience, finally defined as momentariness (see, for example, Ratnakīrti's Kṣaṇa-bhaṅgasiddhi). It rejects the category of substance for that of process. Causality is thus regarded not as a dynamic interaction between substances, but as a functional, many-one relationship of order characterized by invariance and uniformity within any given type of process. |
| ISBN | 0631213279; 9781405164566 (Online); 9780631213277 (Print) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405164566.ch26 |
| 點閱次數 | 423 |
| 建檔日期 | 1999.07.14 |
| 更新日期 | 2021.10.13 |
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