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Jay Lazar Garfield (born 13 November 1955) is a professor and researcher that specializes on Tibetan Buddhism. He also specializes on the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, ethics, and hermeneutics. He is currently Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities at Smith College, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Buddhist Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies.[citation needed]

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When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.

Betray, Extent, Fail, Failing, Thankless, Way

I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.

Brought, Built, Children, Educational, Thinking, Treat

We take Aristotle seriously not when we write about his ideas, but when we take his ideas as part of our discussions.

Aristotle, Discussion, Discussions, Ideas, Writing

The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.

Civilisation, Goal, Name, Names, Pole, Views

Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including that one. That's not self-defeating, though; it only induces an important kind of epistemic humility and a clearer view of what we do when we reason. We engage in one more fallible human activity among many.

Activity, Argue, Buddhist, Humility, Kind, Self

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

Engage, Philosophically, Philosophy, Seriously, Take

In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.

Art, Case, Government, History, Learn, Philosophy

When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist.

Become, Career, Careers, College, Order, Pursue

Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A. C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.

1932, Differences, Philosophy, Preparation, Similarities

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