Overview
This book provides an outline of the Buddhist shunyata principle (the inherent emptiness of all phenomena), and presents a Western philosophical base by which to logically support its integration into the western mindset. Buddhim and Western philosophy are surprisingly compatible. Buddhist Existentialism outlines the influence of existentialists, such as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, and introduces us to the ideas of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist thought.
Author Biography
Dr. Robert Miller has an MA in Philosophy from Edinburgh University. He did postgraduate research at Cambridge University for a Cambridge M.Litt. on themes in existentialism and Zen Buddhism, and also practiced Buddhism at the San Francisco Zen center. He came to Monash University on a scholarship to do a Ph.D on themes in the philosophy of Kant, religion, and ethics. Since 1990 he has been teaching Philosophy full-time at RMIT.