PHIL-201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hubris, Upanishads
4 Oct 2017
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Rejects atman: a notion of a self existing independent of the aggregates. The argument from aggregates is aposteriori based on observation: there is nothing but the changing aggregates, there is no unchanging self underlying the changing aggregates, thus there is no permanent self. There is no self that is unchanging for any length of time over which the aggregates rise and pass. In the upanishads, the atman is not an object, but a subject. Thus the atman is reasonable not observed by the subject because it is the subject. The main dualism concerned in buddhism is the subject and object distinction: atman is the pure subject which cant be made into an object. Thus atman is not an object of awareness, but it is the subject difficult to know the subject as a subject, not make it an object of our attention.
