Early Buddhist Metaphysics The Making of a Philosophical Tradition

Name: Early Buddhist Metaphysics The Making of a Philosophical Tradition
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ISBN: 9780415345194

ISBN-10: 0415345197

ISBN-13: 9780415345194

Edition: 2005

Authors: Noa Ronkin

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This book provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist thought to the systematic and allegedly scholastic philosophy of the Pali Abhidhamma movement. Conceptual investigation into the development of Buddhist ideas is pursued, thus rendering the Buddha's philosophical position more explicit and showing how and why his successors changed it. Entwining comparative philosophy and Buddhology, the author probes the Abhidhamma's metaphysical transition in terms of the Aristotelian tradition and vis-à-vis modern philosophy, exploiting Western philosophical literature from…

Book details

List price: $215.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/19/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction: Situating Theravï¿½din Doctrinal Thought: Towards a Comparative Buddhist Philosophy



The Further Teaching: Abhidhamma Thought in Context



What the Buddha Taught and Abhidhamma Thought: From Dhamma



The Development of the Concept of Sabhï¿½va and Buddhist



Individuals: Revisiting the Abhidhamma Dhamma Theory



Causation as the Handmaid of Metaphysics: From the Paticcasamuppï¿½da to the Patthï¿½na


Concluding Reflections