Fwd: Buddhist influence on Hume

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From: Shiva Shankar <sshankar@cmi.ac.in>
Date: Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:33 PM
Subject: Buddhist influence on Hume
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Could David Hume Have Known about Buddhism? Charles Francois Dolu, the Royal College of La Fleche, and the Global Jesuit Intellectual Network
                       Alison Gopnik

http://www.alisongopnik.com/Papers_Alison/Gopnik_HumeStudies_withTOC.pdf

"... The story of Hume and the Jesuits suggests that there could have been contact between Buddhist ideas and one of the founding fathers of the European Enlightenment. ... ... The connection between Confucianism and Leibniz has long been recognized - it is interesting to see a potentially similar connection between Buddhism and Hume. ... It would be interestingly ironic if the fervently religious Jesuit missionaries actually provided some of the material for the great skeptic's thought, even if neither the Jesuits, nor the Buddhists, nor even Hume himself recognized that that was what had happened. ..."

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Palash Biswas
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