[Buddha-l] McEvilley

[Dan Lusthaus]

Re: Re: [Buddha-l] Re: Natural lucidity for SocratesJust ran into an old article by Thomas McEvilley in Philosophy East and West (31, April 1981, 141-164) entitled "Early Greek Philosophy and Madhyamika."

Here is a test for all you amateur historians. What is the problem with the following project, described at the end of the first paragraph?

"In this article I will attempt to show that in certain areas the methods of the two traditions were identical, that the motives for applying these methods were, at times anyway, extraodinarily similar, and that the possibility that the two traditions were historically linked at important points cannot be dismissed. Specifically, I will present parallels from the Greek philosophical schools founded _before Alexander the Great's expedition to India_ [emphasis added], to the methods and motives of the Madhyamika school, and will then consider the possibilities of historical connections."

Hint 1: As far as I know, McEvilley never wrote a followup piece on Nagarjuna's time machine.

Hint 2: google the dates for Alexander. Then google proposed dates for Nagarjuna.

Dan Lusthaus
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