Graham Priest on Buddhism and Philosophy

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

What is the nature of the self? What is reality? How should we live? These are fundamental philosophical questions. Graham Priest discusses how such questions have been discussed in the Buddhist tradition for this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

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0:00.0	This is philosophy bites with me Nigel Warburton and me David Edmonds.
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0:12.3	www philosophy bites.com or you can become a patron at
0:17.5	Patreon. Accurate figures are hard to come by but worldwide perhaps 500 million people practice Buddhism.
0:26.4	Buddhism is a religion founded on the teachings of the spiritual leader Buddha, born in the
0:30.8	6th century BC.
0:32.4	It has no place for a god.
0:34.0	Grand Priest is at the city university of New York.
0:38.0	He says that Buddhism is particularly rich in philosophical insight.
0:42.0	Grand Priest, welcome to philosophy buying. rich in philosophical insight.
0:43.0	Grand Priest, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
0:45.0	Hi Nigel.
0:46.0	The topic we're going to focus on is Buddhism and philosophy.
0:51.0	Now we know that Buddhism is amongst other things a religion but how is it relevant to philosophy?
0:58.0	Well you're certainly right that Buddhism is a religion.
1:01.0	It has its sacred texts, its sacred places, its rituals, its
1:04.9	priesthoods and so on. However, like most religions, it has a philosophical
1:09.4	underpinning, a view of the nature of the world and metaphysics. It has views about how you should
1:15.2	live and how you should treat others, has an ethics, it has views about how you know all these things.
1:20.6	So these are all standard philosophical questions. Met metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, and whether or not you subscribe to the religious side of the practices, you can certainly be interested in the philosophical aspects.
1:35.0	That doesn't even mean you have to believe them.
1:37.0	Is that in the spirit of Buddhism, religions tend to be dogmatic.
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