a work in progress
You can't get very far in a Philosophy degree without butting heads with Nietzsche: the unfortunate playboy for all things anti-Christian, anti-conformist, or anti-anything. You don't believe in anything? Must be Nietzsche's fault. Pissed off at your parents? You can probably quote Nietzsche. Mad at God? Well, you get the idea. The problem with studying […]
Several years ago I watched a special on, I believe, A & E, documenting who they believed to be the 100 most influential people of the millennium. Lists like those are always controversial - are Spielberg (#91) and Jane Austen (#63) really worthy to be one of the top 100? - and their methods are […]
Vimalakīrti is the protagonist of the Vimalakīrti-Nirdesa Sutra. He is introduced as a Licchavi, a city-state in northern India, from the city of Vaiśālī. Vaiśālī is known to be the land of Amrapali, a famous Indian courtesan, whose garden is the opening and concluding location for the narrative as the teaching place of the Buddha. […]