PERSONS AS WEAKLY EMERGENT: AN ALTERNATIVE READING OF VASUBANDHU'S ONTOLOGY OF PERSONS

According to Mark Siderits, conventional reality in the Abhidharma Buddhist philosophy, particularly as expounded by Vasubandhu (4 C.E.), is "useful fiction" that is "reducible" to ultimate reality or dharma. It is argued here that if conventional reality is useful in the way Sid...

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Published inPhilosophy east & west Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 1218 - 1230
Main Author Hayashi, Itsuki
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press 01.10.2016
University of Hawaii Press
Subjects
Analysis
Atomism
Buddhism
Buddhist scholars
Cognition & reasoning
Conventions
Dharma
Emergentism
Fiction
Legal entities
Metaphysics
Morality
Ontology
Philosophy
Reading
Reductionism
Rhetorical figures
Strong emergentism
Ultimate reality
Vasubandhu
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New York
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Summary:According to Mark Siderits, conventional reality in the Abhidharma Buddhist philosophy, particularly as expounded by Vasubandhu (4 C.E.), is "useful fiction" that is "reducible" to ultimate reality or dharma. It is argued here that if conventional reality is useful in the way Siderits describes it in his "Consequentialist justification," then weak emergentism better represents the Buddhist metaphysics than reductionism.
ISSN:0031-8221
1529-1898
1529-1898
DOI:10.1353/pew.2016.0088