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Titlin, L. I. The Problem of an Ontological Status of a Subject in Vasubandhu’s Pudgala-Vinishchae

Abstract: The article studies the problem of interpretation of the Buddhistic conception of ‘non-self’ (anatman) based on the analysis of the 9th part of Abhidharmakosha by Vasubandhu, the philosopher living in the 4th century. The author of the article analyzes whether it is possible or impossible for ‘self’ to exist as the subject of perception, learning and thinking. The author shows that the Buddhistic philosophy suggested a completely new approach to human psyche that views it as the combination of constantly changing and dynamically interacting phenomena (dharmas) and ‘subject-free’ ontology forming the basis. The article also discusses possible approaches to explaining the connection between the Buddhistic psychology with D. Hume’s theories, phenomenology and modern cognitive philosophy (F. Varela, E . T homson, E . Rosh). T he article contains the author’s translations of relevant texts from Sanskrit and Pali (the first translations into Russian). The article will be of interest to researchers in the sphere of cognitive psychology, psychology of perception and knowledge who are interested in the problem of Self and the Subject and in a philosophical dialogue between the West and the East.

Keywords:

psychology, subject, personality, individual, consciousness, psyche, Self, non-Self, atman.

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