Buddhaghosa's Model of Temporality seen through the Prism of Bergson's Duration.
The broad objective of this paper is to expound the model of temporal awareness as per Buddhaghosa and compare it with Bergson's account of duration. As per Buddhaghosa, the notions of time, consciousness, and causation are inter-related. Accordingly, to understand the nature of temporal consciousne...
| Publicado en: | Sophia Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 315 - 339 |
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