Imagine Being a Preta: Early Indian Yogācāra Approaches to Intersubjectivity
The paper deals with the early Yogācāra strategies for explaining intersubjective agreement under a mere representations view. Examining Vasubandhu, Asaṅga, and Sthiramatis use of the example of intersubjective agreement among the hungry ghosts (pretas), it is demonstrated that in contrast to the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
[2017]
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Sophia
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 337-354 |
| RelBib Classification: | BL Buddhism TB Antiquity TF Early Middle Ages VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Vasubandhu
B Buddhism B Sthiramati B Yogācāra B Cosmology B Intersubjectivity B Asaṅga B Hell B Personal Identity |
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| Summary: | The paper deals with the early Yogācāra strategies for explaining intersubjective agreement under a mere representations view. Examining Vasubandhu, Asaṅga, and Sthiramatis use of the example of intersubjective agreement among the hungry ghosts (pretas), it is demonstrated that in contrast to the way in which it was often interpreted by contemporary scholars, this example in fact served these Yogācāra thinkers to perform an ironic inversion of the realist premiseshowing that intersubjective agreement not only does not require the existence of mind-independent objects but is in fact incompatible with their existence. By delineating the phenomenological complexity underlying this account, the paper then proceeds to unpack the emergent Yogācāra account of intersubjectivity, its implications on the understanding of being, the life-world, and alterity, arguing that it proposes a radical revision of the way we conceive of the shared and private distinction in respect to experiences, both ordinarily and philosophically. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Reference: | Kritik in "I Take Refuge in the Sangha. But how? The Puzzle of Intersubjectivity in Buddhist Philosophy Comments on Tzohar, Prueitt, and Kachru (2019)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-016-0544-y |