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u/GarrMateys · 6 pointsr/philosophy

I've heard it said that Western Philosophy is all footnotes to Plato. That is, discussions stemming from the things that Plato first wrote about, and generally staying within the framework that he established. Now I'm not saying it's 100% accurate, but I do think that Western Philosophy has a pretty unified tradition, where thinkers can refer to a rather set canon, and there is a long history of people responding to their predecessors. The west didn't really discover Eastern Philosophy until the eighteenth or nineteenth century (this is not exactly true, but accurate enough for my point here), by which time there was a deep tradition established, and academic philosophy as we know it was pretty set. So there wasn't a lot of room for Eastern thinkers to squeeze into the canon. Also, it has to be said, the West first encountered Eastern Philosophy in an imperialist way- these were the philosophies of the conquered "savages" (from the 18th century perspective), and were largely not deemed worthy of study.

Also Also, Eastern thinkers didn't engage in a lot of Western arguments. The assumptions that a Lao Tzu makes means that the Tao and the Bible (or plato, or whoever you want) kind of talk past each other more than they talk to each other. I mean, there's some really interesting attempts by the first europeans who translate the Tao, where they're trying to figure out if Taoism is some sort of Chinese "knowledge" of the Christian God. They were so far apart that it was mostly mutual incomprehension, for a good while.

So for western thinkers, it seems to be that Philosophy was a good game that we'd been playing for hundreds of years, and Chinese/Asian philosophers were playing a different game. Asking "why don't western philosophers know chinese philosophy?" is kinda like asking "why don't football players shoot 3 pointers?". It's not an exact comparison, and I think that there is increasing blending of the two (Wittgenstein seems fairly eastern to me in places), and I think articles like these are part of this blending effort. Just my 2 cents.


If anyone is interested in learning more about Chinese/Asian thinkers, I really enjoyed this series:

"Great Minds of the Intellectual Tradition"

from the Great Courses series. I listened to the whole thing on Audible in like a week when I was stocking shelves on the night shift. It's a really broad overview, but it has great context/starting points for further exploration. Highly recommended.

u/Zachariah · 3 pointsr/yoga

Ahh well, I was a philosophy major in college (Philosophy of Mind).

I honestly prefer Buddhism (Vipassana & Zen are my specific focus) to Yoga, when it comes to deeper matters, but I find the comparative difference between the two vastly interesting and informative.

Sadly, I don't know where to send you for more. It's a complicated subject, and to be honest, I've had the idea of writing a book for a while now since I'm not finding the kind of information which I believe is important out there and packaged usefully. Yoga people tend to point to the Bhagavad Gita for Philosophy and Spiritual basis, which is more like reading the christian Bible (archaic, obscure, and easily mis-interpreted)

I think that this audio lecture course (36-parts, ~20 hours, $15 on audible) is extremely valuable when getting oriented and having the context to understand more deeper things: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Minds-Eastern-Intellectual-Tradition/dp/B00DTNVNT2 ..

u/NegativeGPA · 3 pointsr/zen

In terms of becoming familiar with general eastern philosophical climate, I was recommended this by a user here a year and a half ago. I found it to be super useful.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Minds-Eastern-Intellectual-Tradition/dp/B00DTNVNT2/ref=nodl_

In terms of cost, you get a free month and a free credit. So you can just do that and then cancel after you’re done