Stcherbatsky, F. I.
,
later Theodore Stcherbatsky
(1866–1942).
Russian scholar of Buddhist philosophy.
He is chiefly remembered today for his work on
Mah
y
na
Buddhist philosophy, and in particular the first detailed treatment of the Logical or
Pram
a
school of
Dign
ga
and
Dharmak
rti
. His most influential writings are
The Central Conception of Buddhism
(1923), an examination of the
Abhidharma
notion of
dharma
; an exposition of the thought of
N
g
rjuna
,
The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana
; and his magisterial
Buddhist Logic
, 2 vols. (1932).
Steiner, Rudolf
(founder):
Steinheim, Salomon Ludwig
(1789–1866).
German Jewish poet and philosopher, Steinheim argued that religious
revelation
is of its very nature non-rational. He alienated the advocates of
Reform Judaism
by his supra-naturalism, and the
Orthodox
by not identifying revelation with the Jewish holy books. His major work was
Die Offenbarung nachdem Lehrbegriffe der Synagoge
(4 vols.), but it had little influence on his contemporaries. He is now regarded as a forerunner of existentialism.