Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'On the Natural Faculties' and 'Buddhacarita'

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5 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties

21799

We just use the word 'faculty' when we don't know the psychological cause [Galen]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

7906	When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

22489

'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red' [Geach, by Foot]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7904	The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha]

7905	The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha]