{"id":2674,"date":"2004-10-27T14:04:43","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/10\/27\/cultural-diss-onence\/"},"modified":"2004-10-27T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T18:04:43","slug":"cultural-diss-onence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/10\/27\/cultural-diss-onence\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Diss-onence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4064'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LHASA, TIBET&#x2014;Deng Hsu, 14, said Monday that he is &#8220;totally getting into Western philosophy.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of Kant, Descartes, and Hegel, and it&#8217;s blowing my mind,&#8221; Hsu said. &#8220;It&#8217;s so exotic and exciting, not like all that Buddhist &#8216;being is desire and desire is suffering&#8217; shit my parents have been cramming down my throat all my life. Most of the kids in my school have never even heard of Hume&#8217;s views on objectivity or Locke&#8217;s tabula rasa.&#8221; Hsu said he hopes to one day make an exodus to north London to visit the birthplace of John Stuart Mill.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/philg\/2004\/10\/25#a6512\">Philip Greenspun&#8217;s Blog<\/a> (Don&#8217;t forget to read the comments &#8211; they&#8217;re the best!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LHASA, TIBET&#x2014;Deng Hsu, 14, said Monday that he is &#8220;totally getting into Western philosophy.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of Kant, Descartes, and Hegel, and it&#8217;s blowing my mind,&#8221; Hsu said. &#8220;It&#8217;s so exotic and exciting, not like all that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/10\/27\/cultural-diss-onence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}