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

[Mark Kohut]

I, too, could have down without her personal story but, then again,
stay cool and care, I sez to myself BUT

Hume's Disease of the Learned.........echoes.... the Learned Dog (in
ways)                  and his  metaphysical remarks AND THIS:

"Those creaky wooden ships carried ideas across the boundaries of
continents, languages, and religions just as the Internet does now
(although they were a lot slower and perhaps even more perilous). As
part of this new global intellectual history, new bibliographies and
biographies and translations of Desideri have started to appear, and
new links between Eastern and Western philosophy keep emerging."

IS in Mason & Dixon.........

No knowledge or belief that Pynchon knew Hume (well) but he did know
what Eastern ideas were going to change the West.

Marvelous bit of intellectual history..

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
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> ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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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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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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