Logical Criticism of Buddhist Doctrines
Subtitle: A Thematic Compilation
Publisher: Avi Sion; Createspace Independent Publishing Platform; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback, e-book
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781981821389
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Foreword; title: 1.	Nagarjuna’s fake logic; title: 1.	Fallacies in Nagarjuna’s work; title: 2.	The Tetralemma; title: 3.	Neither real nor unreal; title: 4.	Misuse of dilemma; title: 2.	Nagarjuna’s privilege; title: 1.	Making no claim?; title: 2.	Plain trickery; title: 3.	Non-apprehension of non-things; title: 4.	A formal impossibility; title: 3.	Philosophy and Religion; title: 1.	Reason and faith; title: 2.	Different grounds; title: 3.	Wise judgments; title: 4.	Right attitudes; title: 4.	Devoid of a self; title: 1.	Fallacious criticisms of selfhood; title: 2.	What “emptiness” might be; title: 3.	Feelings of emptiness; title: 5.	The self or soul; title: 1.	Abstract vs. concrete self; title: 2.	About the soul; title: 3.	About the divine; title: 6.	“Everything causes everything”; title: 1.	The idea of co-dependence; title: 2.	Conclusions of first phase of studies; title: 3.	Conclusions of second phase of studies; title: 4.	Conclusions of third phase of studies; title: 7.	Understanding the self; title: 1.	The individual self in Monism; title: 2.	The impression of self; title: 3.	Distinguishing the ego; title: 8.	Meditating on self; title: 1.	Dismissing the ego; title: 2.	With or without a self; title: 3.	Whether mind or matter; title: 9.	Impermanence; title: 1.	Impermanence: concept and principle; title: 2.	Not an essence, but an entity; title: 3.	Relief from suffering; title: 10.	Illogical discourse; title: 1.	The game of one-upmanship; title: 2.	In Buddhist discourse; title: 3.	Calling what is not a spade a spade; title: 11.	Causation and change; title: 1.	Buddhist causation theory; title: 2.	A formal logic of change; title: 3.	Buddhist critique of change; title: 4.	Different strata of knowledge; title: 12.	Impermanence and soul; title: 1.	Impermanence; title: 2.	Buddhist denial of the soul; title: 3.	The laws of thought in meditation; title: 13.	Epistemological status; title: 1.	The status of sense perceptions; title: 2.	The status of dreams and daydreams; title: 3.	The status of conceptions; title: 14.	Mind and soul; title: 1.	Behold the mind; title: 2.	Behold the soul; title: 3.	The Buddhist no-soul theory; title: 15.	Historical perspectives; title: 1.	Buddhist historicity; title: 2.	About Buddhist idolatry; title: 3.	Buddhist messianism; title: 4.	Assimilating Buddhism; title: 5.	Reason and spirituality; title: 16.	The five skandhas doctrine; title: 1.	My own phenomenological reading; title: 2.	A more orthodox psychological reading; title: 3.	A plainly mechanistic thesis; title: 17.	The five skandhas doctrine (cont’d); title: 1.	The metaphysical aspects; title: 2.	Soul and emptiness; title: 3.	In conclusion; title: Main references; title: Diagrams; title: Figure 1. Three types of continuity; title: Figure 2. How momentary subjects and objects give rise to abstractions; title: Figure 3. Visualizations of negation; title: Figure 4. Matter, mind and spirit presented as three dimensions of existence