Ep. 347: Nyaya Sutra Against Buddhist Skeptics (Part One)

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We're continuing to explore Nyaya epistemology, in this part focusing on ch. 3, "In Defense of the Real," in Nyaya Sutra: Selections with Early Commentaries (2017).

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0:00.0	Hey there it's pretty much your last chance to sign up for my fall big books in
0:03.1	continental philosophy class the class starts around two weeks from when I'm
0:06.3	posting this and you should already be starting on your Hegel's phenomenology
0:09.9	reading go to partially examined life dot com slash class to see the current section times and to get the link to enroll. Hey, this is the Partially Examined Life, episode 347. We're in the middle of a discussion of the Nyaya
0:29.6	Sutra. More information, please see Partially Examined life.com. I'm Mark
0:34.1	Linson Meyer often mistaken for a post and I'm here back with Wes and Seth
0:39.0	though Dylan is not here for part two of this discussion, Dylan will be back. West will be gone.
0:45.7	We had done chapters one and two of the Matthew Dasty Stephen Phillips 2017 presentation of the text with early commentaries.
0:55.7	Last time, so chapter 3 is called In Defense of the Real and kind of is again reacting to these
1:02.2	Buddhist skeptics defending the knowledge sources that we talked about against the ideas that well couldn't we just be completely dreaming maybe that concepts always refer to each other, so ultimately there's no
1:15.1	foundation for them at all, and it's all just a bunch of bullshit. It's all socially
1:19.0	constructed, it's all in our minds, it's all an illusion, so these are the realist defenders against that and I think
1:25.8	their arguments work against if you're going through Descartes meditations and he says
1:30.2	you know how do we know that there's not a demon how do we know we're not a brain in a vat how do we know that there's not a demon? How do we know we're not
1:35.4	dreaming? These seem, I thought, despite the difference in geography, pretty applicable.
1:41.1	I don't know, did you think that there was something about
1:43.2	their worldview that made these not white land in the same space? No I thought just in the
1:49.5	same way that during the last episode we were talking about
1:53.2	them focusing on perception and the senses and inference from perception and so forth.
1:58.6	You know, it's very similar to what we saw here starting with,
2:01.8	it's kind of more formally the empiricists, but even before that,
2:05.2	the questioning of sensation in the form of Descartes skepticism.
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