Sakya pandita and the status of concepts
Philosophy East and West 56 (4):567-582 (2006)
| Abstract | : The thirteenth-century Tibetan thinker Sakya Pandita was a diehard supporter of nominalism with respect to abstract entities. Here, two arguments given by Sakya Pandita against the robust existence of concepts (don spyi) are analyzed and elucidated. The first argument is rooted in the Buddhist idea that conceptual thought is unsound, whereas the second argument arises from considerations of intersubjectivity and verification. By presenting these arguments we gain both a fuller picture of the central role played by concepts within the Tibetan tradition of philosophy of mind and a better appreciation of the philosophical acuity of the Tibetan polymath Sakya Pandita | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,705 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesDerek Ball (2009). There Are No Phenomenal Concepts. Mind 118 (472):935-962.
D. Seyfort Ruegg (2004). The Indian and the Indic in Tibetan Cultural History, and Tson Kha Pa's Achievement as a Scholar and Thinker: An Essay on the Concepts of Buddhism in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. Journal of Indian Philosophy 32 (4):321-343.
Jonathan Stoltz (2007). Gettier and Factivity in Indo-Tibetan Epistemology. Philosophical Quarterly 57 (228):394–415.
Katalin Balog (2008). Review of Torin Alter, Sven Walter (Eds.), Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge: New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism. [REVIEW] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (5).
Jonathan C. Gold (2005). Sa-Skya Pandita's Buddhist Argument for Linguistic Study. Journal of Indian Philosophy 33 (2).
Jonathan Stoltz (2008). Concepts, Intention, and Identity in Tibetan Philosophy of Language. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 29 (2):383-400.
Blo-Bzaṅ-Chos-Kyi-Ñi-Ma (2009). The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems: A Tibetan Study of Asian Religious Thought. Wisdom Publicatiaons.
Pascale Hugon (2009). Breaking the Circle. Dharmakīrti's Response to the Charge of Circularity Against the Apoha Theory and its Tibetan Adaptation. Journal of Indian Philosophy 37 (6).
Yaroslav Komarovski (2006). Reburying the Treasure—Maintaining the Continuity: Two Texts by Śākya Mchog Ldan on the Buddha-Essence. Journal of Indian Philosophy 34 (6).
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads10 ( #106,438 of 549,198 )Recent downloads (6 months)0How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
