From Critical Thinking in Transcendentalism through the Transcendental Consciousness in Buddhism to Practising Metaphysics

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Pages: 61-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/ADCR6990

Abstract:

The article presents the critical grounds for philosophizing in the Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhist schools in relation to Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy. We develop the thesis that, in all three cases, the philosophical reflection takes place through the integration of the theory of the psyche and the theories of objects. Kant’s antinomies are compared with the metaphysical questions that Buddha has left unanswered. Against this background, the question of the transcendental subject as pure consciousness is discussed in Kant’s perspective and in Buddhism. Three models of transcendental philosophy are formulated: classical, non-classical, and post-classical.

Keywords:

transcendental philosophy; transcendental models; Buddhist philosophy; Kant–Buddha antinomies; anatman doctrine; illusion of the self; Buddhist transcendentalism; liberation as an active practice.

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