[Buddha-l] sam harris at the aspen institute

[Franz Metcalf]

Gang,

My master's thesis advisor (Don Gelpi, S.J.) was intellectually in love 
with Peirce and found no conflict between his views and those of the 
Society of Jesus, so I reckon that makes Peirce both a Buddhist and a 
Jesuit. But the story I love about Peirce comes after James began to, 
as Richard says, "highjack" Pragmatism. Peirce, miffed, changed the 
name of his system to "Pragmaticism" and commented that this would 
insure that no one else would want to steal the name again.

Like my favorite koans, this one is no doubt mythologized and 
non-historical, but hey, it's still a good story, and good stories are 
(and here comes the mandatory hidden Buddhist content) half the 
spiritual life--or was it good friends to share them with?

Franz