The Metaphysics of Identity in Fazang’s Huayan Wujiao Zhang: The Inexhaustible Freedom of Dependent Origination

Jones, Nicholaos

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-2939-3_13

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“…(Bliss and Priest, for example, tend to cite Chang, 1972 andCook, 1977). More recent scholarship on Fazang's metaphysics, however, casts some doubt on this interpretation (see Jones, 2015, 142-144;Jones, 2018;317-319). These doubts, if apt, diminish the historical evidence in favor of metaphysical coherentism as a viable alternative to foundationalism.…”

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Interpreting Interdependence in Fazang's Metaphysics

Jones

2022

Journal East Asian Philosophy

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This paper examines the metaphysics of interdependence in the work of the Chinese Buddhist Fazang. The dominant approach of this metaphysics interprets it as a species of metaphysical coherentism wherein everything depends upon everything else, no individual is more fundamental than any other, and so reality itself is nonwell-founded in the sense that chains of dependence never terminate. I argue, to the contrary, that Fazang's metaphysics is better interpreted as a novel variety of foundationalism. I argue, as well, using set-and graph-theoretic techniques, that there is a consistent way to model this alternative interpretation, and that this model differs in significant ways from a coherentist model.

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