GAUTAMA
BUDDHA

Siddhartha Gautama
(563-483 B.C.E.)

 statue head of the Buddha

Intellectual substantiality is in India the end . . . .  Intellectual substantiality is the opposite of the reflection, understanding, and the subjective individuality of the European.  With us it is of importance that I know, will, believe, think this particular thing according to the grounds I have for so doing, and in accordance with my own free will . . . .  Intellectual substantiality is the other extreme from this; it is that in which all the subjectivity of the “I” is lost . . . .

G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the History of Philosophy (1833)

Readings:

The Dhammapada (The Way of Dhamma)

 1.  The Pairs (verses 1-20)  
 5.  The Fool (verses 60-75)
 6.  The Wise Man (verses 76-89)
 7.  The Perfected One (verses 90-99)
12. The Self (verses 157-166)
14. The Buddha (verses 179-196)
18.  Impurity (verses 235-255)
20. The Path (verses 273-289)

Note: A Glossary of Pali and Buddhist Terms is helpful for understanding many of the terms in the assigned reading.

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