How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Agree entirely. The Jesuit holed up in a Tibetan monastery seems like a missed opportunity for Pynchon.

Laura

ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

>Nearly skipped this. Not a big fan of Gopnik, Cog-Sci, and I hate academic confession, have little sympathy and no patience for the confusion of adults, sexual, religious, philosophical....etc....but the stuff on Hume and the Jesuit are worth wading through the distractions. 
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>On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>David Hume, the Buddha, and a search for the Eastern roots of the
>Western Enlightenment
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>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/how-david-hume-helped-me-solve-my-midlife-crisis/403195/
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