Two extremes

Two extremes - eternalism and nihilism. From a buddhist perspective, all non-buddhist philosophies are considered to fall into either of these two extremes. Even within buddhism, there is an attempt by each philosophical school to avoid these extremes and to point out how other schools have to do so.

Nagarjuna wrote:

To say “it is” is a conception of permanence,

To say “it is not” is a view of nihilism,

Therefore the learned should dwell

In neither existence nor non-existence.