TY - JOUR
T1 - Incommensurability of two conceptions of reality
T2 - Dependent origination and emptiness in Nāgārjuna's MMK
AU - Jiang, Tao
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Nāgārjuna is reconstructed here as someone who challenges the way that much of the mainstream Western and Indian philosophical traditions deal with the tension between conceptions of ultimate and conventional reality, termed "genic" and "generative." He argues for fundamental incommensurability between the two and proposes a radically different way to understand the world, making it generatively real and genically empty. In so doing, he questions the distortive presence of genic elements in our understanding of the world, everyday and meditative.
AB - Nāgārjuna is reconstructed here as someone who challenges the way that much of the mainstream Western and Indian philosophical traditions deal with the tension between conceptions of ultimate and conventional reality, termed "genic" and "generative." He argues for fundamental incommensurability between the two and proposes a radically different way to understand the world, making it generatively real and genically empty. In so doing, he questions the distortive presence of genic elements in our understanding of the world, everyday and meditative.
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U2 - 10.1353/pew.2014.0004
DO - 10.1353/pew.2014.0004
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84894128988
VL - 64
SP - 25
EP - 48
JO - Philosophy East and West
JF - Philosophy East and West
SN - 0031-8221
IS - 1
ER -