This is a really interesting take! I don’t think I quite agree, but… probably twitter isn’t the best place to argue metaphysics :)
If śunyata is absence of essential nature, and all things are empty in this sense, then Plato’s theory of ideas is utterly wrong. Because the theory was that everything has an eternal, essential nature.
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In fact, it’s historically plausible that Nagarjuna was specifically refuting Platonism. Around that time, there was a lot more dialog between Greek and Indian philosophy than most people realize.
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In any case, Diogenes’ criticism of Platonic eternalism seems at least somewhat analogous to Nagarjuna’s criticism of Brahmanic eternalism: no eternal, essential nature. But it’s probably just a coincidence that he also used the word “emptiness.”
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Plato's theory of forms has not been scientifically disproved. It is noteworthy to mention that Plato's account of the creation and structure of the universe in the Timaeus had instigated a profound experience in Werner Heisenberg.
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Thus, he gave up the "realistic" view of the universe and, instead, adopted a new vision that approached reality as a dynamic interplay between actual events coordinated in space/time and fields of potentialities, which refer to space/time while being beyond space and time.
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