robber@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoWhat kind of spirituality/religion/faith do you find support in and why?message-squaremessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down112
arrow-up147arrow-down1message-squareWhat kind of spirituality/religion/faith do you find support in and why?robber@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square103fedilink
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-28 months agoWhat? I am not sure which is more ridiculous. Lumping all of western philosophy into one group. (what do you include in this group? Besides Descartes, of course.) or Lumping all of eastern philosophy into one group. (what do you include in this group?) or Reducing both groups to dichotomic catch phrases.
minus-squareBernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·edit-28 months agoThat’s the fundamental difference. Western philosophy is all about thinking, a separate sense of self, rationalism Eastern, Buddhism, daoism etc is the opposite
What?
I am not sure which is more ridiculous.
Lumping all of western philosophy into one group. (what do you include in this group? Besides Descartes, of course.)
or
Lumping all of eastern philosophy into one group. (what do you include in this group?)
or
Reducing both groups to dichotomic catch phrases.
That’s the fundamental difference.
Western philosophy is all about thinking, a separate sense of self, rationalism
Eastern, Buddhism, daoism etc is the opposite