Mark, I'm not sure what you mean. My point was the influence of Eastern thought. James seems to have been open to new ideas and quite dynamic.
Marsha On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:53 PM, 118 wrote: > Hi Marsha, > Yeah, James was pretty smart until he got into psychology. Then he > just became another hack. What a waste. > > Mark > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:21 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Buddhism planted the seeds in James: >> >> James's biography clearly states he had read and reread >> Upanishad and Buddhist texts, texts that belonged to his >> father. This would have been around 1870. >> >> Here's a list of some of the books: >> >> Modern Buddhist - Alabaster >> Religion des Buddha (Vol.1) - Koeppen >> Le Buddhisme - Taine >> Weltauffas der Buddhisten - Bastian >> Brahma Somej: Four Lectures - Sen >> >> (William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism >> by Robert D. Richardson) >> >> ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
