Philosopher of Emptiness
Nagarjuna
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A Buddhist monk who founded the Madhyamaka, or Middle Way, school. He argued that nothing has a nature of its own, since everything depends on other things, and called this emptiness.
Key work: Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way)
“Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Nothing exists by its own nature; things depend on other things.
Even emptiness is not a thing to cling to.
There is an everyday truth and an ultimate one, and both matter.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Empty of Its Own NatureThe Two TruthsBetween Always and NeverNeither This Nor That
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