皮羅懷疑主義與禪宗的哲學對話

• Main Authors: 莊子義, Harris, Carlo-JaMelle
• Language: 英文
• Published: 國立政治大學
• Subjects: 惠能; 皮浪主義綱要; 六祖壇經; 皮羅懷疑主義; 賽克斯都斯‧恩比利克斯; 佛教禪宗; Huineng; Outlines of Pyrrhonism; Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch; Pyrrhonian skepticism; Sextus Empiricus; Zen (Chan) Buddhism
• Online Access: http://thesis.lib.nccu.edu.tw/cgi-bin/cdrfb3/gsweb.cgi?o=dstdcdr&i=sid=%22G0094154017%22.

This thesis is a comparative study of the approaches to mental tranquility advanced by the Pyrrhonian skeptic Sextus Empiricus and Huineng, the historically recognized Sixth Patriarch of the Southern Zen School. Relying on the Outlines of Pyrrhonism and the Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch, the principle texts of the Pyrrhonian and Zen schools respectively, I argue that the Pyrrhonian skeptic’s method of attaining ataraxia (“unperturbedness”) via the use of opposing arguments is essentially identical to that of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng’s employment of “opposition pairs.” Finally, in addition to contextualizing the schools historically, I compare their respective positions on ethical and metaphysical statements.