A great question suggestion from @svateboje: what is the philosophical text that you return to most frequently?
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Replying to @NeuroYogacara @svateboje
The Daodejing, followed by the Zhuangzi, Phenomenology of Perception, Nagarjuna's MMK, Vasubandhu's Three Natures Exposition, and Fazang's Rafter Dialogue and Goldon Lion Treatise
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Replying to @evantthompson @svateboje
There was also a time when I repeatedly read Simone Weil, but it's been a while and I need to get back to that
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Replying to @evantthompson @svateboje
Reflecting on your tweet and my answer makes me realize how big the difference is between philosophy for life enrichment and philosophy for work, at least in my case
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Replying to @evantthompson @svateboje
There's some convergence, of course, but would that there were more
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Replying to @evantthompson @svateboje
I’m trying hard to increase the convergence between my reading for work and my reading for life enrichment...but that has meant reading a lot of things for the first time lately!
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Does anybody in academic philosophy treat the New Age with any seriousness?
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Replying to @ericlinuskaplan @svateboje
Depends what you mean by "New Age" and "seriousness." I was raised in a New age (newage, rhymes with sewage, as we kids used to say) environment and there's a bunch of autobio stuff related to it in my Waking, Dreaming, Being
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Replying to @evantthompson @svateboje
I mean treating the claims of somebody like Eckhardt Tolle or Caroline Myss as seriously as we would treat Plotinus or some religious thinker from the past.
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There are a few philosophers who take "Perennialism" (an antecedent to the new age thought) seriously (Miri Albahari for one). In Religious Studies Perennialism is mostly rejected but new age stuff would be studied under the heading of contemporary religion
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Replying to @evantthompson @svateboje
thanks, I will check it out. There's such a split between the complete contempt for them in the academy and the importance these writers (flawed as they are!) have in so many of millions of people's lives, the elitism kinda bugged me.
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