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Logic in Buddhism

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Buddhist dialectics; Dialectic logic; Indian dialectics; Indian logic

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Similar to other Indian religions, Buddhism is devoted to liberation from suffering, resulting in the achievement of “bodhi” (Sanskrit, meaning “awakening”) in all three traditions of Buddhism, Theravada Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna. As laid out by Siddhartha Gautama, the Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, understood as a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions and to finally understand the transcendent truth about all things. Attaining the right view is hereby the beginning and the end of the Eightfold Path, which simply indicates understanding things as they really are. The right view is hereby not understood in the sense of “right vs. wrong,” rather it should be as “free from delusions,” which transcends mutually excluding categories. As a method for attaining this cognitive aspect...

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  1. Viadrina Europe University Frankfurt (Oder), Fregestr. 33, Berlin, 12161, Germany

    Dr. Karim Fathi

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  1. Department of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Anne L. C. Runehov

  2. Pontificia Universita Antonianum, Roma, Italia

    Lluis Oviedo

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Fathi, K. (2013). Logic in Buddhism. In: Runehov, A.L.C., Oviedo, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_1589

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