From the @yalepress Fall 2019 catalogue -- a short interview about my forthcoming book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/sites/default/files/fall_2019_catalogue_web_final.pdf …pic.twitter.com/NASJCU6P6e
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Yes, that claim is an example of what I call "Buddhist exceptionalism" -- also that Buddhism relies on reason, not scripture; or that Buddhism emphasizes causality (in the scientific sense of the term)
I'd imagine that lurking over, above, and all around this is the supposed personality of the Buddha himself: calm, serene, non-dogmatic, above the fray, dispassionate, moderate etc (almost starts to sound like a scientist's imagined moral and intellectual qualities.)
Yes! From my book: "This Buddha - who manages to be the founder of a 'world religion,' while also being 'spiritual but not religious,' a heroic iconoclast, a mind scientist, a free thinker, and a rational empiricist philosopher--was forged 'in a European philological workshop'"
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