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Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science
Christopher Beckwith robustly argues in Warriors of the Cloisters that modern science, or as he calls it, a “full scientific culture,” which took root in the Scientific Revolution of the Enlightenment
Uploaded 24 Oct 2014
The Bodhisattva Career in Shantideva: Part 2
Wisdom and Means, Emptiness and Compassion: Philosophical Problems   In this column’s first segment, we explored how Shantideva’s idea of compassion, noble as it was, led to some very interesting q
Uploaded 10 Jun 2013
When Arguments Happen: Answering, Defending, and Debating Compassionately
“Politeness… is a demanding discipline; to convince others without recourse to the tricks of the demagogue or bully requires a high level of intelligence, especially when the audience is
Uploaded 28 May 2010
Logical Tolerance in Buddhism
Problems with bivalent logic   The father of classical logic in the Western tradition, Aristotle, had already noticed that in order to save the law of excluded middle i.e. A or not A one is for
Uploaded 1 Jan 2009
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