From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 16:25:33 GMT
Scott,
I've said before that I'm intrigued by this emptiness thing. As it
happens, I've picked up a new book on Rorty ("Richard Rorty" by Alan
Malachowski). Its introductory, so most of it is stuff I've already picked
up from Rorty himself. BUT, one thing I ran across a couple of days ago
was a section titled "Philosophical Propaganda" which started with a quote.
From Nagarjuna:
"I have no proposition, and therefore I have no fallacy."
The rest of the section (though short) was a comparison of Rorty to
Madhyamika (which I take to be the same as Madhyamaka, its just a spelling
difference, right?). Malachowski takes most of his comparison from C.W.
Huntington's book "The Emptiness of Emptiness: An Introduction to Early
Indian Madhyamika." I won't go into what was said exactly, but needless to
say my intriguement has increased. Specifically, though, everything that
Malachowski said I can agree with out of hand. But then, he didn't bring
anything up like an absolute. So, there's still that.
I have no problem with Buddhism being a precursor to Rorty or anybody else.
That's why I do intellectual history. I do have a problem with believing
in Buddhism just because they "figured it all out" so far in advance (I
doubt this is why you believe it, though).
Matt
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