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Aug 2024

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Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Sk...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey

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Mark, Seth, and Dylan now turn to ch. 4 of Dasti/Phillips' Nyaya Sutra: Selections with Early Commentaries about the self. Buddhism famously claims that there is no self, and the Nyaya philosophers respond with both common-sensical arguments (e.g. psychological properties must be possessed by something) and religious (without a soul, what persists through reincarnation?).

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