(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best eastern philosophy books

>can you please clarify your ideological position

Sure.

I'm a paleoconservative deep ecologist. This means I adhere to the oldest values of American conservatism and pair them with an interest in environmentalism through a more wholesome design of society.

I moderate /r/new_right because the new right ideas are closest to paleoconservatism in some ways. I tried to write a description of new_right that encompassed all of the ideas that the movement has tossed around.

Beyond that, I think politics is a matter of strategies and not collectivist moral decisions, am fond of libertarian-style free market strategies, and take interest in many things, hence the wide diversity of stuff that I post.

I've learned that on Reddit it's important to ask for people to clarify definitions before ever addressing any question using those terms. If you want me to answer any specific questions, we need a clear definition first agreed on by all parties.

I recommend the following books for anyone interesting in post-1970s conservatism beyond the neoconservative sphere:

• Paul Woodruff, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
  
• Pat Buchanan, Suicide of a Superpower
  
• Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies
  
• Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind from Burke to Eliot
  
• Jared Diamond, Collapse
  
• Mark Steyn, America Alone
  
• Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
  
• Bruce Charlton, Thought Prison: The Fundamentalist Nature of Political Correctness
  
  Other than that, I'm pretty much a mainstream Republican. Not all links I post constitute endorsement, such as this fascinating article.

Edit: TL;DR, Here are 3 introductions for: Indian, Chinese, and Islamic philosophy. For broader overview: there is this anthology of World Philosophy.

It might help to answer using a slightly higher resolution than merely 'Eastern'. I'll hyperlink good introductions and/or articles that suggest introductions.

(1) "Western Philosophy": Tends to include (1a) Philosophy in the Greco-Roman world (classical antiquity); (1b) Philosophy in the Latin-Christian world (medieval Europe); (1c) Philosophy in the Islamic world (Europe and Middle East-ish); (1d) Modern+ periods (Europe and colonial expansion). And we might include (1e) Byzantine philosophy as "Western" (the 'eastern empire' after the decline of Rome).

(2) "Eastern Philosophy": Tends to include (2a) Indian philosophy, (2b) Chinese Philosophy, (2c) Japanese philosophy, and more

This bifurcation of East-West leaves important danglers, or excludes parts of certain traditions: For instance, Russian philosophy, African philosophy, Latinx philosophy, etc. In the West, the amount of continuity also has drawbacks: For instance, Byzantine and later Islamic philosophy tend to get cropped out of the narrative, Jewish philosophy gets swallowed and split into the other two major Abrahamic religions that had political and military dominance, etc.

Also, it can give a false impression that East has a similar structure to West. Example: Western philosophy from (1a)-(1e) often share the same foundational texts and heritage, respond to similar problems, often embedded in Abrahamic traditions, lots of language overlap and large translation movements, etc. and this isn't always the case with Eastern philosophy. Two major traditions (2a) Indian and (2b) Chinese, for instance, are as distinct from each other in their origins and language as (1a) and (2a) are.

Alternative approach: There are compilation works that just talk of a World Philosophy, and this might also be the sort of thing you're interested in.

I have read this one by Chandradhar Sharma "A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy". It's a pretty academic but I found it useful.
https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Survey-Indian-Philosophy/dp/8120803655

Get the Mahabharata by C. Rajagopalachari.

Best option for people wanting to read Mahabharata in simple English.

Same for Ramayana.

One of the best summaries of Indian Philosophy...

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Indian-Philosophy-Chatterjee/dp/8129111950

Flag patterns are consolidation formations formed after a primary move upwards or downwards. In the case of a bull-flag, the flag pattern either tilts downwards (amounting to a shallow retracement) or forms sideways. They do not tilt upwards.

If you are interested to learn more about these patterns, I'd recommend a book such as:

https://www.amazon.com/Technical-Analysis-Trends-Robert-Edwards/dp/1607962233/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1521696586&sr=1-12&keywords=technical+analysis+of+stock+trends

I think it could be interesting for you to check out the Critical Realist school of the philosophy of science. It has primarily (but not exclusively) influenced the various social sciences and there emerged as a powerful alternative to empiricist/positivist and interpretive approaches to research.

Andres Colliers book Critical Realism is a good introduction to the central ideas. You could then continue on with Andrew Sayers Method in Social Science.

Also check out this short paper on how a researcher can analyze data with a critical realist methodology. It also provides a summary for some of the basic concepts of CR: http://www.academia.edu/1255275/In_Search_of_Mechanisms._Conducting_a_Critical_Realist_Data_Analysis

While the plurality of Hinduism is well understood, the massive cultural appropriation of Hinduism by Abrahamic traditions is not.

And many of the Swamijis in their quest for more disciples or who do not understand, say Christianity, pull out the, 'ekam sat, vipraha vadanti' quote trying to equate all religions.

At a certain point, you have to qualify what/who is a Hindu and who is not. If everything is Hindu, the word losses it's meaning.
Is ISIS Hindu? Is paganism Hindu?

I recommend to the discerning reader to become familiar with Rajiv Malhotra's writings on this topic. https://www.amazon.com/Being-Different-Challenge-Western-Universalism-ebook/dp/B005UQ3YT8

Probably an Eastern philosopher.

Here's a fun way to start looking: http://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Eastern-Philosophy-Third-Totem/dp/184046786X

Hiriyanna's outline of Indian philosophy is quite good.

https://www.amazon.in/Outlines-Indian-Philosophy-M-Hiriyanna/dp/8120810996

I also began with Radhakrishnan's 2 volume set on Indian philosophy:

https://www.amazon.in/Indian-Philosophy-Second-Introduction-J-N-Mohanty/dp/0195698428

Mo Tzu... fascinating. Only available in hard copy

just to add to this: there's a 1600 pages translation of the Analect by David R. Schiller that seems very interesting

There's no one accepted position on cosmology in ISKCON yet. There's a book, however, that might unify all our divergent views and reconcile them with cosmology of Bhagavatam (one of our main doctrinal texts).

The universe that we see is only one part of the Vedic cosmos, the Sisumara system, and we see it because Sisumara acts as an interface in each and every interaction we have in this world, delivering us our karma and making things perceptible to us. This interface becomes perceptible, too, and, based on these perceptions, we construct our current "scientific" model of the solar system, stars, planets, Moon travel etc.

In Vedic sense, however, since all these perceptions are physical, we never ever leave our current level of existence, which is "Earth", and never ever reach the Moon level of existence, which is "mind", where there are neither senses nor sense objects. In that understanding we've never traveled to the Moon even if our physical experience shows that we had (or faked it, as some would argue).

Distances to the Sun or the Moon given in Bhagavatam are not physical but show the amount of transformations one needs to perform to change from, say "mind" level to "body" level of existence, like the amount of effort you need to transform your desires into reality, so to speak.

This explanation is based on the theory of Sankhya - one of the six traditional schools in Hinduism. Its practical application used to be yoga but since no one can do it properly anymore and resorts to stretching exercises instead, Sankhya has become largely forgotten. Turns out it can still be useful in describing Vedic cosmos.

Online, dreamhawk.com for me is a good interpretation. You can also try James Dekorne’s website. For books I have Brian Browne Walker’s edition.
http://www.jamesdekorne.com/GBCh/GBCh.htm
https://www.amazon.com/I-Ching-Book-Changes-ebook/dp/B0050O7T0U

When you cast a reading, remind yourself that yijing is for you, your guidance, your actions. Not somebody else’s.

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Uhh...so the passage you mentioned, as well as a lot of Chinese philosophy, is concerned very much with governance. In Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy, Norden makes it clear that

>Many Westerners have a preconception of the Daodejing as otherworldly. In reality, the text has an urgent practical concern, rooted in the chaotic situation of the Warring States Period...

>The solution the Daodejing offers for the corruption and violence of contemporary life is to return to a primitive, agrarian utopia—the human condition before the corrupting influences of culture, literature, urbanization, laws, and advanced technology...

>How are we to return to the utopia of the distant past? The Daodejing shares with Confucianism a belief in the transformative power of a good ruler’s Virtue...

I still do think there is a lot of anarchist-like thoughts in Chinese philosophy in general. But, overall, the influence of Confucianism and it's conservative roots means you're going to have to take it out of context in most cases.

There is a decent lecture series online.

As for books i think M. Hiriyanna and [Surendranath Dasgupta] (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12956) are alright.

For many people reading and understanding Sellars is one of the hardest tasks in contemporary philosophy. In my graduate seminar on Sellars the professor noted that unfortunately with Sellars you cannot understand any piece of Sellars without understanding the whole of Sellars..which of course causes some issues.

To help combat that I really suggest you draw on some secondary sources. deVries' Wilfrid Sellars is a helpful book for that purpose.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2952364?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Had the guy as an instructor in college. He was a student of Allan Bloom. You might have seen this edited volume already:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1137374233/ref=nav_timeline_asin?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

https://smile.amazon.com/Introduction-Classical-Chinese-Philosophy-Norden/dp/1603844686?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0

Doesn't come up to the modern day though.

This is the basic text, but there have been a lot of papers published on it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0230552838

If you have jstor access, you can spend a couple of months working your way through the topic.

If you read Japanese, you can spend a lifetime on it. As the above book mentions, Kierkegaard was translated into Japanese before he was translated into English, precisely because Japanese Zen is existentialism before existentialism had that name.

Everything is about how you read it.

https://www.valmiki.iitk.ac.in/sloka?field_kanda_tid=1&language=dv&field_sarga_value=1

for online reading.

https://www.amazon.in/Ramayana-C-R-C-Rajagopalachari/dp/8172764820/ref=sr_1_17?keywords=valmiki+ramayana&qid=1564479253&s=gateway&sr=8-17#customerReviews

Outside of Marx, people within the social anarchist tendency have been incorporating Critical Realism as a theoretical framework.

Critical Realism: An Introduction to Roy Bhaskar's Philosophy by Andrew Collier

David Graeber has written about critical realism in this essay.