Eastern Philosophy · India
Nagarjuna & Emptiness
The second-century Buddhist philosopher who argued that nothing has fixed, independent essence: dependent origination, the two truths, the tetralemma, and why emptiness is a middle way, not nihilism.
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Prereqs: The Buddha. Next: Zen Buddhism; Wittgenstein (compare). Sources: Nagarjuna, *Mūlamadhyamakakārikā*, trans. Jay Garfield, *The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way* (1995); Jan Westerhoff, *Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka* (2009).Next: 1. Emptiness = dependent origination