[lbo-talk] Ambigious Doug

Ian Murray seamus2001 at comcast.net
Mon Jun 30 09:20:46 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com>


> >May I de-bloviate your derivative work as I lived long before you? :-)

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I was playing Nagarjuna making fun of Hegel in the manner that Michael Pollak played Hegel. Nagarjuna lived in 3rd century ce, long before Hegel and was/is considered a master dialectician who explored/relaxed the limits/assumptions of the law of non-contradiction via the use of trilemmas, quadrilemmas, tetralemmas and the like.


> >
> >I'm told your work exhibits 'Eurocentrism.' Is that true and if so,
why?
>
> ?????

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Nagarjuna is considered the Plato of the East. There is no evidence that we know of that he heard of or read Plato, Aristotle or any of the major Greek thinkers. Hegel, on the other hand, had read plenty of Chinese and Indian philosophy. Just plug Eurocentrism in Google. :-)

Ian



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