| Popis: |
This book sets forth a revisionary conceptual scheme envisaged by the ancient Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu. The book describes his revisionary no-self and no-person metaphysics and its normative implications as an alternative vantage point to challenge what we ordinarily assume and intuit. I argue that we can account for the phenomenology and the subjective character of our ordinary conscious experience in the absence of selves and persons. The no-person view, however, leaves us without a basis for our person-related concerns and interpersonal practices. A wholesale rejection of our ordinary practices is practically impossible. The best way forward is to build theories of “what we are” and “how we should live” that are mutually constrained by some forms of reflective equilibrium. |
