[Buddha-l] neuroscience: neural plasticity

[jkirk]

 All I know is that I loved everything we read (especially Hadot) and would
feel the universe a poorer place if any of these authors had not been part
of it.

--
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
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As luck would have it, Hadot has out a new book, _The Veil of Isis : An
essay on the history of the idea of Nature._ Michael Chase, trans. Harvard,
2006.
Just reviewed in LRB of 10 May 07 by Ian Hacking:  "...Hadot, who is now 85,
is a great scholar of Neoplatonism. He is working on a definitive edition of
Marcus Aurelius [can't wait for that!JK]....You will find yourself in the
company of a wise Greek, a pagan, a philosopher who believes that the role
of philosophy is to teach us how to live [as did Socrates, et alii? + the
Buddha JK]. 

I've always been interested in ideas of Nature cross-culturally, but note
that in this review (I haven't seen the book yet) Asian concepts of Nature,
and they had plenty of them from India's (Prakrti) to China's (?), aren't
covered. Wow--what a great research project that could be for someone's grad
students.

Joanna  

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