07-26-2007, 04:49 AM | #1 |
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Has anybody compared Chinese versus western philosophy?
It is truly different.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comparphil-chiwes/ I thought Islamic thought was different, but it had its period of blending and incorporating Greek philosophy. Chinese, until recently, did not.
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07-26-2007, 06:14 AM | #2 |
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I have a good friend serving a mission in Taiwan.
The absolute incomparability and incompatibility of western and eastern thought still astounds me. Our ideological genealogy sprout from completely opposite sides of the family tree.
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I've got a friend here (LDS, as if it matters) who is comparing Chinese and Italian literature from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for his dissertation. He does a lot of Dante (not exactly philosophy, but not completely out of range) and Taoism. Of course, he's in Taiwan right now.
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But when I was in library school, I did my best to infuse intellectual study where possible (this is a tall order in library school). One way I managed it was by considering the classification systems devised around the world. You can tell a lot about a people, their priorities, and how they think, by looking at how they organize knowledge. In the Chinese system, Communism comes first and the entire system is very science heavy. Chinese Classification:
A GENERAL WORKS B PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION C AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY D HISTORY: GENERAL AND OLD WORLD E HISTORY: AMERICA F HISTORY: AMERICA G GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION H SOCIAL SCIENCES J POLITICAL SCIENCE K LAW L EDUCATION M MUSIC AND BOOKS ON MUSIC N FINE ARTS P LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Q SCIENCE R MEDICINE S AGRICULTURE T TECHNOLOGY U MILITARY SCIENCE V NAVAL SCIENCE Z BIBLIOGRAPHY. LIBRARY SCIENCE. INFORMATION RESOURCES (GENERAL) |
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Western political philosophy focuses on rights.
Chinese political philosophy focuses on duties.
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One interesting aspect I was reading is that the philosophy is treated differently because Chinese language functions quite differently.
Chinese is a non-inflected langauges and focuses upon Names. There is no case, no tense. There is only one plural -"men". Women hen gaoxing jian dao ni. It's a naming game. English and European languages focus upon propositions, and most are highly to slightly inflected.
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