[Buddha-l] a comparative study of ideas of 'reincarnation'--Not new but not mentioned here, far as I know

[JKirkpatrick]

JKirkpatrick schreef:
> The blurb mentions refs to such thinkers as Weber,
Wittgenstein, and 
> Nietzsche.  I'd hope that the author, being Obeyesekere, also
invoked 
> Freud. JK ====================
>   
To the first sentence I would like to add that it would be a
great achievement to put thinkers as Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
into a framework without messing up their message. Those
philosophers insist that frameworks are quite useless for people
who want to understand what they're trying to say. Nietzsches
favourite pastime was to smash his own framework.
As to the second sentence: why?

Erik
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Over the decades, has anyone's message not been messed up by
somebody?
As to my 2d sentence, 2 comments: Obeyesekere used Freud a lot in
his writings; and,if you know anything about Freud's ideas, why
not?
As I've not read the book yet, I can't say more but it's on my
ILL list.

Joanna