Buddhism Questions

Pg 165
1. Nagasena is talking about that it is not the parts of a person that make it a
person, it is the presence of the skandhas and the collection of them that
makes a person, this is applied to a chariot by saying it is not the axel or
the wood that makes it a chariot it is the collection where constituent parts
are present
Pg 167
1.
a. Not a part of his body
b. Feelings
c. Perceptions
d. Impulse
e. Consciousness
f. Not a combination of all these things
2. That a combination of the 5 skandhas creates the impression of an identity
and is not in fact who we are
Pg 168
1. Nagasena believes self as just a concept, but to prove its existence you
would have to be able to prove it as permanent for the skandhas to be a
proof of an entity not just an impression
2. The parts of a chariot cannot be called a chariot even if pieced together,
when they are together they are given the name chariot which represents
the reality of an idea of a chariot
3. That when you have the right parts of something, in chariots its wheels
and an axel etc and in people its the skandhas they are given the term
chariot and being respectively.
4. Yes, because I dont believe in a soul I think that everything we are is a
collection of physical things that collide to coincidentally make you,
whether this makes you a person I do believe that the physical properties
if they will make a man but I agree with Locke that if you can be a person
but not a human
Pg 169
1. Nagasema would agree with Hume in the fact that humans are comprised
from parts.
2.