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

[Mark Kohut]

I highly, highly recommend her THE PHILOSOPHICAL BABY, even if your
children are older or you have none.
The title is ambiguous in this way: she tries, and uses scientific
studies' to try to show how the youngest minds work, think
purely, obviously in a "pre-literate' way ala so many modern writers,
yet within concepts we call philosophical:
Justice [Fairness], Identity, etc., etc...



On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 12:05 PM, kelber at mindspring.com
<kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> David Hume, the Buddha, and a search for the Eastern roots of the
>> Western Enlightenment
>>
>>
>> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/how-david-hume-helped-me-solve-my-midlife-crisis/403195/
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l