Empty Words
Subtitle: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 19, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780195146721
First sentence: SEXTUS EMPIRICUS REGARDED SKEPTICISM not as a nihilistic attack on our cognitive life, but rather-as he emphasizes in a variety of medical metaphors-as a form of philosophical therapy, to cure us of the cognitive and emotional ills born of extreme metaphysical, moral, or epistemological positions.