This volume constitutes a critical review, mainly on logical grounds, of some of the main Buddhist doctrines, including impermanence, interdependence, emptiness, the denial of self, and the ‘five skandhas’ claim.
An edition of Logical Criticism of Buddhist Doctrines
(2017)
Logical Criticism of Buddhist Doctrines
A Thematic Compilation
by Avi Sion
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Logical Criticism of Buddhist Doctrines is a ‘thematic compilation’ by Avi Sion. It collects in one volume the essays that he has written on this subject over a period of some 15 years after the publication of his first book on Buddhism, Buddhist Illogic. It comprises expositions and empirical and logical critiques of many (though not all) Buddhist doctrines, such as impermanence, interdependence, emptiness, the denial of self or soul. It includes his most recent essay, regarding the five skandhas doctrine.
Publish Date
2017
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Avi Sion,
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Language
English
Pages
330
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Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword
1. Nagarjuna’s fake logic
1. Fallacies in Nagarjuna’s work
2. The Tetralemma
3. Neither real nor unreal
4. Misuse of dilemma
2. Nagarjuna’s privilege
1. Making no claim?
2. Plain trickery
3. Non-apprehension of non-things
4. A formal impossibility
3. Philosophy and Religion
1. Reason and faith
2. Different grounds
3. Wise judgments
4. Right attitudes
4. Devoid of a self
1. Fallacious criticisms of selfhood
2. What “emptiness” might be
3. Feelings of emptiness
5. The self or soul
1. Abstract vs. concrete self
2. About the soul
3. About the divine
6. “Everything causes everything”
1. The idea of co-dependence
2. Conclusions of first phase of studies
3. Conclusions of second phase of studies
4. Conclusions of third phase of studies
7. Understanding the self
1. The individual self in Monism
2. The impression of self
3. Distinguishing the ego
8. Meditating on self
1. Dismissing the ego
2. With or without a self
3. Whether mind or matter
9. Impermanence
1. Impermanence: concept and principle
2. Not an essence, but an entity
3. Relief from suffering
10. Illogical discourse
1. The game of one-upmanship
2. In Buddhist discourse
3. Calling what is not a spade a spade
11. Causation and change
1. Buddhist causation theory
2. A formal logic of change
3. Buddhist critique of change
4. Different strata of knowledge
12. Impermanence and soul
1. Impermanence
2. Buddhist denial of the soul
3. The laws of thought in meditation
13. Epistemological status
1. The status of sense perceptions
2. The status of dreams and daydreams
3. The status of conceptions
14. Mind and soul
1. Behold the mind
2. Behold the soul
3. The Buddhist no-soul theory
15. Historical perspectives
1. Buddhist historicity
2. About Buddhist idolatry
3. Buddhist messianism
4. Assimilating Buddhism
5. Reason and spirituality
16. The five skandhas doctrine
1. My own phenomenological reading
2. A more orthodox psychological reading
3. A plainly mechanistic thesis
17. The five skandhas doctrine (cont’d)
1. The metaphysical aspects
2. Soul and emptiness
3. In conclusion
Main references
Diagrams
Figure 1. Three types of continuity
Figure 2. How momentary subjects and objects give rise to abstractions
Figure 3. Visualizations of negation
Figure 4. Matter, mind and spirit presented as three dimensions of existence
The Physical Object
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