Nāgārjuna thought model
India · c. 150–250
A major Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker who developed emptiness (śūnyatā), the Middle Way, and the doctrine of the two truths.
Perspective
Things possess no fixed self-nature; they hold together only provisionally, within a web of dependence.
Value model
Individual agency45
Rational inquiry72
Risk awareness45
Social conformity35
Self-overcoming72
Practicality18
Language skepticism90
Decision principles
- Are you grasping it as something fixed?
- Depart from both extremes.
- Read the emptiness that lies within the relation.