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<!--QuoteBegin-dhu+Jul 22 2006, 08:02 AM-->QUOTE(dhu @ Jul 22 2006, 08:02 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Only the Jewish contribution to europe intellectuality is worthy of our time.  what can be now extracted as the native euro tradition is too puerile for even special mention.  it would be interesting nonetheless to see the English/French and Italian flowerings as continuations of Basque and Etruscan civilizations.  Eastern Europe, Russia, germany, by contrast are all derivative in almost all elements.  Even what you had acknowleged about Jokerlal's statement about germanic philosophers, the same had struck me as "odd" as well.  This tradition of Enlightenment (as opposed to Renaissance) is almost wholly derived from the new Buddhist input, the footprints of which were subsequently erased (as stated by Shri RM).  MArxism is an Enlightenment product.
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thanks for your response.

as for your first line, i agree that ever since rome turned christian (in fact slightly before that) the main guiding force in european thought process has been from the jews or from judaic thought. why though do you think greek and roman contributions arnt worth much?


and the last line... marxism being an enlightment product... would you say that of the other semitic "ism"s as well (x-ianity, islam, feminism etc). and why would the people (ie. jews) with the most hardass and exclusivisionist of religions and beliefs take to the universality of buddhist though?? opposites attract??