Tag: Philosophy

FBA Podcast: The Buddha's Two Great Gifts to the World

By Rijupatha on Mon, 18 Aug, 2014 - 14:00

FBA Podcast: The Buddha's Two Great Gifts to the World

By Rijupatha on Mon, 18 Aug, 2014 - 14:00Words are not adequate to describe things as they are, and yet Ratnaguna does a remarkable job! This week’s FBA Podcast, “The Buddhas Two Great Gifts to the World” Ratnaguna explores the gifts of discourse and practice. This talk was given to to promote a new buddhist centre in Stockholm.

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Western Buddhist Review

The Universe Is Waking Up

By Dhivan Thomas Jones on Tue, 16 Jul, 2013 - 20:28

The Universe Is Waking Up

By Dhivan Thomas Jones on Tue, 16 Jul, 2013 - 20:28Thomas Nagel Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Oxford University Press, 2012, 130pp.

Review by Dhivan Thomas Jones

Thomas Nagel is an American professor of philosophy, perhaps best known for his 1974 article, ‘What is it like to be a bat?’, in which he argued that consciousness, as is occurs in creatures like bats and human beings, means having a point of view on things.[1]...