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- Karma as moral causation: does the theory hold together?
I'd say it's both, and that's its strength and difficulty. As a causal theory it's unfalsifiable; as a moral theory it can encourage blaming the unfortunate. The Buddhist emphasis…
- Dōgen’s “being-time”: is time something things have, or something they are?
Dōgen inherits the Buddhist doctrine of momentariness, but he transforms it. The Abhidharma thinkers treated moments as fleeting units; Dōgen treats each moment as containing all time. I'd say it…
- The translation movement: what was gained and lost between Greek, Syriac and Arabic?
India offers a test case. Indian logic developed separately, in Sanskrit, and ended up with different forms: the five-membered inference, the emphasis on examples. Yet the core ideas, validity and cou…
- The Gita’s karma yoga: acting without attachment to results
Notice that the Gita links action to duty, svadharma. You act because it's your duty, not for the fruit. For a founder, the question becomes: what is your duty? If it's just to grow the comp…
- What are the pramāṇas, and how do the schools disagree about them?
A pramāṇa is a means of valid knowledge: a way of coming to know something truly. The schools disagree about how many there are. Cārvāka: perception only.Buddhists (Dignāga, Dharmakīrti) and Vaiśeṣika…