/lit/ - Literature

Yeah I know this thread kind of died but wanted to share this:

http://www.smith.edu/philosophy/documents/MadhyamakaisNotNihilismNov2012.pdf

Madhyamaka is Not Nihilism, Jay L Garfield

>I will argue that this nihilistic reading of Nāgārjuna is unjustified, and that Nāgārjuna is
in fact a robust realist, offering an analysis, not a refutation of existence. On that analysis
to exist is to exist conventionally, and ultimate existence is in fact an incoherent
ontological fantasy. I focus on what many take to be the sharpest case for extreme
nihilism, Nāgārjuna’s negative catuṣkoṭi


This is tackling claims of ontological nihilism though, not ethical/existential nihilism