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Evil in Modern Thought at Twenty Workshop
@ Hageman Hall - New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Evil in Modern Thought at Twenty Workshop
@ Hageman Hall - New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Sep 30 all-day
Susan Neiman develops in Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (2002, Princeton: Princeton University Press) a watershed perspective on the longstanding problem of evil, the perniciously difficult to satisfy “need to find order within those appearances so unbearable that they threaten reason’s ability to go on.” The book thereby also presents a radically new perspective on traditional debates within metaphysics. On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, we gather to celebrate her accomplishment and to advance[...]
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Buddhist Conventional Truth and Ontological Pluralism. Laura P. Guerrero (William & Mary)
@ Faculty House, Columbia U
Buddhist Conventional Truth and Ontological Pluralism. Laura P. Guerrero (William & Mary)
@ Faculty House, Columbia U
Sep 30 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
With responses from Mark Siderits (Illinois State University) ABSTRACT: Buddhist philosophers often draw a distinction between two different kinds of truth: conventional truth (saṃvṭi-satya) and ultimate truth (paramārtha-satya). Abhidharma Buddhists philosophers typically understand this distinction in terms of an ontological distinction between two different kinds of entities: ultimately real entities (paramārtha-sat) and conventionally real entities (saṃvṛti-sat). Similar to contemporary philosophical discussions about ordinary objects, Buddhist philosophers debate the ontological status of conventional entities and the semantics of discourse concerning[...]
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