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Budistički agnosticizam
Buddhistic agnosticism

Author(s): Nebojša Vasić
Subject(s): Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Published by: Udruženje za filozofiju i društveno-humanistička istraživanja “Eidos”
Keywords: Buddhism; postmodernism; universality; agnosticism; paradox;

Summary/Abstract: Buddhistic agnosticism in its original teaching denies the relevance of the existence of universal truths which are insignificant to the fundamental – eschatological goal; release from suffering. The eightfold buddhistic path is not related to transcendence, while the Buddhist “noble silence” reveals itself in the sense of renouncing the need to find the ultimate refuge in the transcendence, ultimately in the meaning of existence or the salvation of suffering. Buddhistic apathetic agnosticism is not seen in the idea of otherworldliness as an essential basis for its learning and the acceptance of the fourfold noble truths. Postmodernism in its attempt to abolish the universalities forgets that it is possible only with universality to abolish universalities – which is an immanent paradoxical position.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 19-28
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bosnian