Re: RARA-AVIS: List of 100 Best hard boiled characters of thelast 100 years

From: Thomas Bauduret ( suspiria@club-internet.fr)
Date: 23 Mar 2002

le 23/03/02 9:03, Rene Ribic ࠼A HREF="mailto:rribic@optusnet.com.au?subject=Re:%20RARA-AVIS:%20List%20of%20100%20Best%20hard%20boiled%20characters%20of%20thelast%20100%20%20years&replyto=B8C20F90.3D5F%25suspiria@club-internet.fr">rribic@optusnet.com.au a 飲it :

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>> Maybe it's the Maker's Mark speaking, but I wouldn't put a religious
>> belief system inside a book on philosophy either. That was the context
>> that I learned about them in school.
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> Well, that puts paid to Taoism but doesn't explain the absence of
> Confucianism from a book on philosophy.
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Besides most of Buddhism is a philosophy before a religion, as well as sufism. The taoists were more considered as philosophers than religious leaders, as far as I knowŠ Otherwise, you'd have to dismiss Pascal for being a Christian philosopher !

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