ZEN AS PANPSYCHISM

ZEN AS PANPSYCHISM Panpsychism is the view that mind or soul (Greek: ψυχή) is a universal feature of all things, and the primordial feature from which all others are derived and this is a common theme in Zen.  Master Mangong Wolmyeon described it as [2]: “What is referred as ‘mind-only’ in Buddhism— the central philosophy […]

CASE AGAINST MATERIALISM

CASE AGAINST MATERIALISM MATERIALISM The theory of materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter or energy; that all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions. In other words, matter is the only substance, and reality is identical with the actually occurring states of […]

LEIBNIZS MONADS

LEIBNIZ’S MONADS Leibniz was a German polymath and philosopher who occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and philosophy, having developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton. Leibniz held that atoms were panpsychic and modified Bruno’s theory of monads.  Leibntiz meant his model to be a superior alternative to the theory of atoms that was […]

GALEN STRAWSON, BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY AND RADICAL SELF-AWARENESS

Posted on November 13, 2015 by BupSahn Sunim The recent intersection of analytic philosophy and philosophical Buddhism has been a very heartening sign for me. Not only does it move the discussion away from what I’ve always felt to be the dead-end of Kripkean essentialist metaphysics, but it’s also produced some serious thinking about logic and selfhood and […]

DUALIST DOUBLETALK

Posted on November 13, 2015 by BupSahn Sunim Many twentieth century philosophers have argued that we should reject ‘dualism’ and follow some form of ‘physicalism’. Strangely, the same philosophers often reject panpsychism (the view that everything has a mental aspect). Rejection of panpsychism seems itself to imply a dualism, since it means that some parts of the universe […]