My favourite word of the day is "gymnosophist".
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@willbuckingham Do you know McEvilley’s _Shape of Ancient Thought_? About exchange of ideas between Greece and India.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness Now... I'll add it to my "must read" list, David!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@willbuckingham Some of it verges on crackpottedness, but enough is solid that I now think of Buddhism as a branch of Greek philosophy…1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness Or the two of them as a branch of a broader Indo-European set of philosophical concerns?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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@willbuckingham Also he traces many issues back to non-Indo-European cultures (Egypt, Sumer). This I find also less compelling, although >
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