Skepticism in Ancient Indian Philosophy- Some notes on Nagarjuna's Sunyata (Philosophy of Emptiness)
Who is a sceptic? “A sceptic is a person who doubts only so that he may doubt and seeks nothing beyond uncertainty itself.” – Descartes “…his (the sceptic’s) charge against our standards of proof is not that they work badly; he does not suggest that there are others that work better. The ground on which he attacks them is that they are logically defective, or if not defective, at any rate logically questionable.”- A J Ayer Philosophical scepticism is born out of an uncompromising insistence on doubting everything. As to whether the position of a sceptic in philosophy is a tenable one has been debated perpetually in Indian philosophical tradition. Can it be claimed as ancient Nyaya philosophers do that the theoretical position of a sceptic is self-contradictory? A tenable philosophical position? Sceptics have often been portrayed as people whose insistence on doubting is out of all proportion; as people who question for the sake of questioning. Ancient philosopher Udayana takes a ji