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> Hmm. Yes...but :> I've already tread the road of eastern philosophies, and
> I'm afraid that I just don't buy 'em. I know that that sounds rather
> arrogant (I mean, really, who am I to write off several thousand years of
> religious and philosophical thought) but, well, they just don't adequately
> deal with my tendency toward 'reason'.
Then you haven't tread the road. There is considerable material on
Buddhist philosophy and reason - I recommend the two books that Dover has
reprinted called Buddhist Logic, by Th. Stcherbatsky, or Nagarjuna's
Mulamadhyamakakarika, translated as The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle
Way, by Jay Garfield; I'd also recommend Bharata's Natyasastra. Your
statement _is_ arrogant if you haven't gone through Buddhist/Hindu logics
(which are taken seriously in the West, by the way - especially in
relation to Wittgenstein and Kant).
The only reason I'm being "hard" here is because eastern philosophy in
the first place is a misnomer (see Said's book, Orientalism), and in the
second place, there's a big difference in what the west ordinarily
perceives as eastern philosophy, and its complexities, which are as
"logical" (prior to deconstruction) as the West's.
Alan