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Originally published in 1979. The Prasannapada is the explanation
of the versed aphorisms of Nagarjuna which are the first and basic
statement of the Buddhist philosophy of the middle way. When first
published, this volume was the first attempt, in any European
language, to present all the essentials of this most radical of
Buddhist philosophical works. Seventeen of its twenty-seven
chapters have been chosen to give an integrated statement of every
aspect of its arguments and conclusions.
The Magic of Unknowing is a unique philosophical and literary work.
Cast in the dialogue form, it unfolds in the mood of soliloquy.
Mervyn Sprung has created an imaginative meeting of the minds of
great western philosophers: Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hume,
Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Pyrrho. All are brothers, the more
skeptical sons of Aristotle. Later they hear as well from Chang, a
Taoist, and Nagaraj, a Buddhist, both lately adopted into the
family. The dialogue dramatises the erosion in modern times of
Aristotelian rationality under the pressures of its own logic. The
two eastern thinkers throw the weight of their own skepticism into
the discussion at the critical point. In the end the brothers
realize that they have moved away from Western philosophy's faith
in the singular power of reason to establish truth and sense in the
human world. They discover the magic of unknowing that lies in the
reciprocal penetration of knowledge and behavior, each receiving
its sense from the other. They discover that philosophies are not
the issue of reasoning alone but are themselves already inseparably
thought and action. And they realise that this entails an
unheard-of future for philosophy.
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