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- Title
How Does Tom Tillemans Think?
- Authors
Hoogcarspel, Erik
- Abstract
How the zero eventually developed from the concept of śūnyatā and if it developed from there at all, may still be open to discussion. Certain, however, is that any such development has to cross the line between intuition and formalization and this crossing can even go both ways. It is, for instance, possible that the Hindu concept of karma has developed from the practical relations and registration of debt. The formalization of this with the introduction of bookkeeping and money might in its turn have led to a formalization and dogmatization of the concept of karma. Did such a border crossing also happen in the case of zero? Tom Tillemans has argued that it did, which means that the emptiness intuition of Nāgārjuna has been formalized (or has lost a dimension, as I will argue) into a logical structure that might have instigated the institution of zero. I will argue that we need to practice phenomenology if we want to recover the other side of the border of formalization and understand the nature of border crossing. Tom Tillemans (TT) is a historian and philologist of Buddhist texts, who has an impressive record of publications. He has done intensive research into the Buddhist philosophy of emptiness called the Mādhyamika. He also conducted several discussions with colleagues about the subject. This resulted in a series of publications, of which the most important have recently been published in two books. In this article I want to review the most important problems with which TT et al. were confronted and suggest a way out which in my opinion has been overlooked due to self-imposed philosophical restrictions.
- Subjects
TILLEMANS, Tom; BUDDHIST philosophy; EMPTINESS (Philosophy); KARMA; INTUITION
- Publication
Value Inquiry Book Series, 2023, Vol 395, p591
- ISSN
0929-8436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004691568_034