Logical Criticism of Buddhist Doctrines

By Sion, Avi, Dr.

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Title:	Logical Criticism of Buddhist Doctrines
Author:	Sion, Avi, Dr.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Philosophy, logic, philosophy, Buddhism
Collections:	Authors Community, Philosophy
Historic Publication Date:	2017
Publisher:	Avi Sion - Kindle

Member Page:	Avi Sion
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Description
Logical Criticism of Buddhist Doctrines. This 'thematic compilation' comprises expositions and empirical and logical critiques of many (though not all) Buddhist doctrines, such as impermanence, interdependence, emptiness, the denial of self or soul. It includes the author's most recent essay, regarding the five skandhas doctrine.

Summary
Logical Criticism of Buddhist Doctrines is a ‘thematic compilation’ by Avi Sion. It collects in one volume the essays that he has written on this subject over a period of some 15 years after the publication of his first book on Buddhism, Buddhist Illogic. It comprises expositions and empirical and logical critiques of many (though not all) Buddhist doctrines, such as impermanence, interdependence, emptiness, the denial of self or soul. It includes his most recent essay, regarding the five skandhas doctrine.

Table of Contents
Foreword 1. Nagarjuna’s fake logic 1. Fallacies in Nagarjuna’s work 2. The Tetralemma 3. Neither real nor unreal 4. Misuse of dilemma 2. Nagarjuna’s privilege 1. Making no claim? 2. Plain trickery 3. Non-apprehension of non-things 4. A formal impossibility 3. Philosophy and Religion 1. Reason and faith 2. Different grounds 3. Wise judgments 4. Right attitudes 4. Devoid of a self 1. Fallacious criticisms of selfhood 2. What “emptiness” might be 3. Feelings of emptiness 5. The self or soul 1. Abstract vs. concrete self 2. About the soul 3. About the divine 6. “Everything causes everything” 1. The idea of co-dependence 2. Conclusions of first phase of studies 3. Conclusions of second phase of studies 4. Conclusions of third phase of studies 7. Understanding the self 1. The individual self in Monism 2. The impression of self 3. Distinguishing the ego 8. Meditating on self 1. Dismissing the ego 2. With or without a self 3. Whether mind or matter 9. Impermanence 1. Impermanence: concept and principle 2. Not an essence, but an entity 3. Relief from suffering 10. Illogical discourse 1. The game of one-upmanship 2. In Buddhist discourse 3. Calling what is not a spade a spade 11. Causation and change 1. Buddhist causation theory 2. A formal logic of change 3. Buddhist critique of change 4. Different strata of knowledge 12. Impermanence and soul 1. Impermanence 2. Buddhist denial of the soul 3. The laws of thought in meditation 13. Epistemological status 1. The status of sense perceptions 2. The status of dreams and daydreams 3. The status of conceptions 14. Mind and soul 1. Behold the mind 2. Behold the soul 3. The Buddhist no-soul theory 15. Historical perspectives 1. Buddhist historicity 2. About Buddhist idolatry 3. Buddhist messianism 4. Assimilating Buddhism 5. Reason and spirituality 16. The five skandhas doctrine 1. My own phenomenological reading 2. A more orthodox psychological reading 3. A plainly mechanistic thesis 17. The five skandhas doctrine (cont’d) 1. The metaphysical aspects 2. Soul and emptiness 3. In conclusion Main references Diagrams Figure 1. Three types of continuity Figure 2. How momentary subjects and objects give rise to abstractions Figure 3. Visualizations of negation Figure 4. Matter, mind and spirit presented as three dimensions of existence