Candrakīrti
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#Candrakirti
Candrakīrti · c. 600–650 CE
In the books · 1 chapter
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“He proved you can take a chariot apart seven ways, find no chariot anywhere — and still ride it home. Nothing has an essence; everything still works.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Emptiness — the absence of fixed essence in anything — must not be softened, systematized, or turned into one more theory; the philosopher's only honest weapon is to show how your own assumptions collapse on your own terms.”
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- The Great PhilosophersCandrakīrti is Chapter 65 of Vol 2, Late Antiquity & the Early Medieval World.
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