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    The false view that objectifies the five aggregates as a ... — Carmelics
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    The false view that objectifies the five aggregates as a real self (satkāyadṛṣṭi) gives rise to all afflictive defilements and suffering.

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    • 1.The five aggregates are the objective domain of the arising of defilements.
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    • 2.Falsely identifying the aggregates as self constitutes the view known as satkāyadṛṣṭi.
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    • 3.Satkāyadṛṣṭi leads to the arising of all afflictive defilements.
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that denying a substantial self does not eliminate afflictive passions such as pride, resentment, or grief.
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    • 2.If suffering persists even after intellectually accepting no-self, satkāyadṛṣṭi cannot be the sole or sufficient cause of all afflictive defilements.
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    • 3.This suggests defilements have causal roots independent of self-misidentification, such as habitual conditioning or biological drives.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionism accepts that persons are just collections of physical and mental events, yet he acknowledges that this view alone does not dissolve experienced suffering.
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    • 2.The causal claim that a single cognitive error grounds all afflictions conflates the epistemic source of suffering with its full causal explanation.
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    • 3.Emotional defilements in Stoic and Aristotelian accounts arise from disordered evaluative judgments that are not reducible to one misidentification of a self-aggregate.
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    Suffice it here to highlight the important relation that exists between the aggregates and the notion of self. According to Candrakīrti, the five aggregates are primary categories upon which we will draw to examine the phenomenal structure of sentient beings, because of the following reasons: because (1) it serves as a phenomenological scheme for examining the nature of human experience, (2) the way in which human beings construct conceptions of the self is based upon different existential exper
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    The five aggregates are the objective domain of the arising of defilements.
    This suggests defilements have causal roots independent of self-misidentificatio...
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