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I find that many people still act as if the West has the only worthwhile philosophers. personally i find this rather arrogant and myopic, especially seeing as the eastern philisophical systems had a substantial headstart on the west. |
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” (or better yet: three...)
George Bernard Shaw
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. - Mikhail Bakunin
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I think spritually the east is richer. Materially however, the west is richer. |
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“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'” -Hume
In a lot of ways, Eastern cultures prize material goods just as much or more than we do. |
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I think the days of clear lines between east and west are over. Cultures continually influence each other. |
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"we may accept dream telepathy as a working hypothesis." Stephen LaBerge, page 231 Lucid Dreaming 1985
It's always good to get one more viewpoint under your belt. Though, I never really thought people tended to favor western philosophers over the eastern kind. By what examples do you mean? Like early century politicians like Tom Jefferson or Ben Franklin? My favorite philosophers were definately the older ones, like socrates, who remains my favorite. And he is not a western philosopher! |
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naturals are what we call people who did all the right things accidentally
by west i meant the tradition starting with the pre-socratics and including the big three of western philosphy- socrates, plato, aristotle, running all the way through existentialism and all the rest. |
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” (or better yet: three...)
George Bernard Shaw
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. - Mikhail Bakunin
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"we may accept dream telepathy as a working hypothesis." Stephen LaBerge, page 231 Lucid Dreaming 1985
i've read most of his dialogues, and the republic has been sitting on my shelf for months now...i just can't get into it (particularly because i thus far don't think much of the philospher king concept, or 'noble lies' for that matter) |
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” (or better yet: three...)
George Bernard Shaw
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. - Mikhail Bakunin
Both, ...and then some! |
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I am, that I am, becoming what I was, in being!
North. Scandinavian countries rock <3 |
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“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'” -Hume
Probably the most interesting philosophy for you is the one you come up with. I enjoy ready philosophy from others, but my absolute favorite thing to do in this field of thought is to journal and experiment with my own ideas about the world, and just play around with them. Origininality can't be surpassed. |
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naturals are what we call people who did all the right things accidentally
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