Madhyamaka

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c. since 150 · Asia · origin: Nagarjunakonda

The Buddhist "middle way": things have no essence of their own — all is empty

Key ideas

Emptiness (shunyata): everything exists only through interdependence
A middle way between "is" and "is not"
Two truths, conventional and ultimate
Shaped Buddhism in Tibet, China and Japan

Key thinkers

Nagarjuna (founder) — Indian Buddhist philosopher, 150–250

Grew out of

Buddhist philosophy c. since 500 BC · Asia

What grew out of it

Yogachara c. since 300 · Asia

Meanwhile elsewhere

Cynicism Europe
Peripatetic school Europe
Pyrrhonism Europe
Epicureanism Europe
Stoicism Europe
Patristics Africa
Neoplatonism Europe
Kalam Middle East
Falsafa Middle East
Nominalism Europe
Scholasticism Europe
Renaissance humanism Europe
British empiricism Europe
Continental rationalism Europe
The Enlightenment Europe
German idealism Europe
Utilitarianism Europe
Positivism Europe
American transcendentalism Americas
Russian religious philosophy Eastern Europe & Russia
Existentialism Europe
Marxism Europe
Pragmatism Americas
Russian cosmism Eastern Europe & Russia
Phenomenology Europe
Analytic philosophy Europe
Structuralism Europe
Logical positivism Europe
Négritude Africa
Postmodern philosophy Europe

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