[Buddha-l] Re: Facts, Values, and a book a year... [was Hindu Fundamentalism]

[Tom Troughton]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:59:45 -0400, Richard Nance wrote:

>While I was at the University of Chicago, I participated for several
>years in a Wittgenstein reading group. It was started by Leonard
>Linsky; by the time I graduated, James Conant had come on board as
>well. In one of its early incarnations, the group met once a week, on
>Friday afternoons, for three hours. Our task was to read the
>*Philosophical Investigations*, taking the time to really work through
>what it was saying. After a year, we had completed the first ten pages
>of the book, and I had learned a great deal about what it takes to
>read philosophy. That's the most extreme case I know, but examples
>could be multiplied. A course on Kant's *Critique of Pure Reason*
>covered approximately 100 pages; a course devoted Heidegger's *Being
>and Time* covered less than half the book; a course called "Readings
>in Yogaacaara Buddhism" covered the equivalent of perhaps fifteen
>pages of Sanskrit (and we were relying on translations). Each of these
>courses lasted ten weeks; each was paced very well.

What year was this?
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Best wishes
Tom Troughton