Alexis McLeod
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771 appearances
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first heard Apr 2018
last heard Apr 2020
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Do you think that there's something like this going on in Sri Harsha, right?
That there's a attempt to show that the that somehow our reason isn't gonna work to get us what we need where we need to go for mystical knowledge, something like that?
avoiding the avoiding the uh academic skeptic problem of saying that you there's no knowledge, something like this.
No, it was great.
So so the uh what I wanted to go to things I wanted to go back to is the Buddhist tradition.
Um and Nagarjana in particular.
Nagarjana's one of these philosophers, it's always he's always baffled me.
Um I'm kind of one of these I I've thought I've understood what was going on, and then I'm like, no, I don't understand what's going on.
And what one of the things you did with uh Nagarjana here I thought was really interesting, and I think really I think what what you say about him is right.
Um, and you make this distinction about the uh in the early Buddhist tradition.
Um, between the analysis insight tendency in Buddhism and Buddhist quietism.
Could you say a little bit about uh what those are and how you kind of bring those together in the in the chapters?
I think you you uh you you uh concede somewhat to the anti realist view, right?
I think you c you kinda have wanna have a hybrid view where you combine some of the insights from that
From that view.
W one of the neat things uh is this this idea that when you so
You apply these skeptical arguments, um, and then you're left with something.
Um, and it seems like what that is is going to be different for for each of the thinkers that you talk about because of their kind of the background or their school or something like this.
But it's also really hard down to pin down what their positive views, if they had any, uh, may have been.
Um, and do you think did do you think that they did they advance any positive views or and did these or did they just have a kind of idea, say for Nagarjuna, right, once we um once we do away with
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