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Bhadrakara
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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:46 am Post subject: Buddhism and Cognitive Science |
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In a relatively recent paper (2002), Dr. Payne argues:
Buddhism, cognitive science, and phenomenology all make claims regarding human cognition, and often these claims are asserted as applying to all humans no matter when or where they lived.In Buddhism, for example, we find such claims as all human existence is marked by dissatisfaction (duhkha), and that full awakening is possible for all humans - or even more universally,for all sentient beings. For most Buddhists it would seem that these and similar universal claims are accepted on the basis of the authority to whom the claims are attributed, whether the Buddha Sakyamuni, or one of the later masters such as Dharmakirti, Tsong khapa, Zhiyi, or Shinran. In phenomenology, such universal claims are supported by the epistemological value of the phenomenological method — epoché and reduction. Cognitive science can provide additional tools for the evaluation and understanding of such claims about consciousness.
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Plamen
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: Buddhism and Cognitive Science |
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| Payne wrote: | | claims that all human existence is marked by dissatisfaction (duhkha), and that full awakening is possible for all humans... In phenomenology, such universal claims are supported by the epistemological value of the phenomenological method — epoché and reduction. |
I don't think epochГ© and reduction have some soteriological application in transcendental phenomenology. We may put an end (nirodha?) to our judgements positing the existence of the objects of cognition, but as Husserl had demostrated, this has given him more pain (duHka) than relief (naya-mokSa). There was no way for him to the anuttara-samyak-sambodhi, that was the ultimate Sosein-wise phenomenological foundation of European science.
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