Finally, a goddamned academic! Fist pump to Robert Sharf.https://twitter.com/Sciamanoinglese/status/1145704889131003904 …
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5/7 Sharf's point is that many of the intellectual moves you make under the heading of "non-Buddhism" have sophisticated antecedents in the Buddhist intellectual tradition
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6/7 I.e. it belongs to the Buddhist tradition to question what "Buddhism" means (but you already presume to know what it designates, hence your term "x-Buddhism")
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How can anyone in any field theorize before knowing "the scope of their (totalizing) term?" We do our best. My theory of x-buddhism will hold, I believe, even for its not-yet manifested varieties. You do realize that non-buddhism is a theory of Buddhism, right?
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Yes, I understand that. I'm questioning the way the theory tries to rule out (a priori it seems) the relevance of Buddhist philosophy to its questions (my point is methodological)
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