Graham Priest
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386 appearances
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
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So this thought that we're all autonomous agents which come together with our desires, well defined just to be trade off against each other, is just false metaphysics.
We are essentially social creatures.
That's Marx, okay?
But it's exactly the same in later Buddhism, because no one is what they are in and of themselves.
Everyone is what they are dependent on other things.
And the other things
The Buddhists weren't so terribly interested in other people, but hey, the point was there that other people are shit important for you and me and for each other.
Yeah, fast answer no.
Slur answer is a bit more nuanced.
Um there are of course countries in the world which have as a state religion Buddhism.
Myanmar is one of them, but there are others, you know, Thailand does.
What happens when you get any Orthodox religion taking over is that religion starts to function as a basis for the power structure.
So people in power will invoke the religion when it satisfies, when it's when it's conducive to their ends.
Now, I mean this is true of Christianity, obviously, it's true of Islam, it's equally true of Buddhism.
And so what happens is that often you will get the Buddhist
Religion, not the philosophy, but the religion being evoked to justify what they want to do.
Myanmar is an obvious example of this.
Okay?
So what the Myanmarese, is that the right word, uh, military are doing to the Rohingya is just unconscionable.
Okay?
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