[MD] the sophists

[MarshaV]

On May 24, 2010, at 12:42 PM, david buchanan wrote:

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> And it is no accident that we read this in chapter 30, after Pirsig hitches his wagon to James's pragmatic theory of truth and radical empiricism. As a matter of fact, Buddhist scholars recognized James as an ally over a hundred years ago.
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And well they should.     

 
James's biography clearly states he had read and reread 
Upanishad and Buddhist texts, texts that belonged to his 
father.  This would have been around 1870.   

 Here's a list of some of the books:

	Modern Buddhist -
	Religion des Buddha (Vol.1) - Koeppen
	Le Buddhisme - Taine
	Weltauffas der Buddhisten - Bastian
	Brahma Somej: Four Lectures - Sen 

	(William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism 
		by Robert D. Richardson,paperback,p.126)

James's ideas of pure experience weren't pulled out of the sky.
	
 
 
 
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