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Hey guys & girls,
I thought this discussion on another forum may be of some interest to the students of Buddhism here. I don't practice Buddhism, but I've been drawn to investigating it recently as some of my favourite Western poets and philosophers express similar concerns, participate in similar debates, albeit in different signs and symbols, as Buddhist poets and philosophers did over a thousand years earlier.
In that particular discussion, the person writing the original post compared current debates in western philosophy of time (presentism versus eternalism) and free will to debates internal to Buddhism much earlier; perhaps most interestingly he explained how the conflict between the two schools of Buddhism was historically replaced, and considered a false dichotomy (perhaps predicting what will happen in the future philosophy of science debates on the topic).
I thought I would post it up just incase it was of interest to anyone interested the history of Buddhism, or how it relates to the modern day dilemmas of philosophers.
Cheers,
barry
I thought this discussion on another forum may be of some interest to the students of Buddhism here. I don't practice Buddhism, but I've been drawn to investigating it recently as some of my favourite Western poets and philosophers express similar concerns, participate in similar debates, albeit in different signs and symbols, as Buddhist poets and philosophers did over a thousand years earlier.
In that particular discussion, the person writing the original post compared current debates in western philosophy of time (presentism versus eternalism) and free will to debates internal to Buddhism much earlier; perhaps most interestingly he explained how the conflict between the two schools of Buddhism was historically replaced, and considered a false dichotomy (perhaps predicting what will happen in the future philosophy of science debates on the topic).
I thought I would post it up just incase it was of interest to anyone interested the history of Buddhism, or how it relates to the modern day dilemmas of philosophers.
Cheers,
barry