[lit-ideas] Re: The Problem of Evil
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:21:57 -0500
Eric writes:
: How is the Buddhist position that there simply is
: nothing
: like the usual version of the Christian God a
: narrative
: evasion?
:
:
: It is attempting to account for evil by situating
: it in the narrator's ignorance of emptiness. So in
: literary terms, the Buddhist narrative is like a
: fantasy that turns out, at the end of the story,
: to have been a "just a dream."
But surely the "just a dream" conclusion of the Buddhist
narrative is a consequence, not of the absense of God,
but rather of the absence of any independent or permanent
self.
In the Taoist narrative Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he was a
butterfly dreaming that he was Zhuang Zhou. What on earth
does that have to do with the existence, vel non, of God?
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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