Why do some people say that there is a philosophy in the West and no philosophy in the East

Such people do not understand what philosophy is. It's as ignorant as saying that big muscles are toned. Actually, the highest philosophy is in China. There are intellectual athletes in the West, but there are very few philosophical excellence.

Take Hegel's logic, obscure but the structure level is actually very shallow, isn't it logic, I have written so much, and I haven't given a precise definition of logic, which is very interesting.

Take the dialectic of nature in Marxism, I can't read the original text at all, this is my feeling after reading it, all textbooks are hypocritically summarized by these people who have no faith.

Of course, there are many Western thinkers, and the cultural inheritance of the West is stronger than that of the East, and the way of inheritance and development is adopted, while the development of Eastern culture takes the path of being invaded and then assimilated, so the Western tradition is better maintained, and the accumulated results are more significant. But the wisdom of the East, which has not been consumed from ancient times, can raise the level of consciousness to a noble realm that cannot be reached by inheritance alone without leapfrogging development.

Therefore, the real philosophy is in China, and the person who holds the problem view does not know what philosophy is, and his mind is already the "racetrack" of Western philosophy (Lu Xun should not let his mind become a racetrack), seeing that it is all horses, and thinking that there are only horses in the world of philosophy.

Because in fact, the West does have philosophy, and the East does tend to have ideas. Strictly speaking, philosophy is the understanding of the objective world, at least it is born from the understanding of the objective world, and thought is something unique to human beings, but it is more born from the subjective world of human beings. Obviously, one is extroverted and the other is introverted, and the direction is different, and the results are naturally different.

Didn't Westerners eventually begin to realize the importance of human beings? So in addition to looking up at the outer starry sky, they also realized that they also had to look through the inner starry sky. There is no good or bad in this, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, although the Easterners have a place to learn from the Westerners, but the Westerners also have a place to learn from the Easterners.

Of course, the learning mentioned here is not what Confucius said that there must be a teacher in the three-person line, but what must be learned fundamentally, or the shortcomings that oneself must overcome, or the inevitable accompanying shortcomings brought about by the full development of a certain strength.

Those who are chosen do not understand what philosophy is, just as ignorant as they say that great muscles mean fitness.

The word philosophy is a Chinese translation of philosophy, according to the origin and strict meaning of the concept of philosophy [philosophy], philosophy is Western philosophy, which is a unified conceptual system under the same historical and cultural tradition. When people say that there is no philosophy in the East and that philosophy is Western philosophy, they are not making any value judgments, but only clarifying a historical fact.

Philosophy is the perspective of human perception and understanding of the world, and due to the difference in the generation and survival mode of Eastern and Western societies, two completely different philosophies have been caused.

The so-called Orient mainly refers to Asia, and in ancient times, its main countries were India and China. Because these two countries are basically agrarian societies, life is fixed, and large-scale farmland and water conservancy construction is required, so their social form is mainly centralized imperial rule.

In this social form, people's thoughts and perspectives are viewed from a holistic perspective. Moreover, this overall consciousness is also encouraged and promoted by the royal family.

Therefore, the understanding of the world in Eastern philosophy is similar to the deductive method, which directly grasps the world as a whole, emphasizing the harmony and self-consistency of the whole. In the view of Eastern philosophy, the part is subordinated to the needs of the whole, and the emptiness of the whole is used to interpret the color of the part, that is, the tangible thing is deduced from the invisible Tao.

Therefore, Eastern philosophy does not pay attention to microscopic research, and only relies on intuition and meditation to perceive the world, lacking specific thinking processes and logic.

Unlike Eastern societies, Western societies are predominantly nomadic and non-territorial, and their corresponding forms of government are feudal county lords centered on individual cities. Thus, Western philosophy emphasizes the importance of the individual, similar to induction, which holds that the world is made up of basic structural units.

For example, the atomic theory proposed by the ancient Greeks Leucipbel and Democritus held that the world is made of atoms, and the nature of the world is also determined by the basic properties of atoms.

Later, Aristotle further developed the metaphysical idea that the real world is determined by a deeper nature. Therefore, in order to understand, Western philosophy has put forward many concepts and established a logical system between concepts, so that the parts explain the whole.

In short, Eastern philosophy has the idea of organic unity, while Western philosophy is a microscopic combination of machinery; The understanding of Eastern philosophy is intuition and meditation, while the understanding of Western philosophy is based on logical analysis and reasoning. Eastern philosophy focuses on the self-consistency of the whole, while Western philosophy focuses on the establishment of concepts. Eastern philosophy is sensual, while Western philosophy is rational.

Both philosophies have their pros and cons. Western philosophy is suitable for the early stage of understanding, which is conducive to the collection and sorting of different phenomena; Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, is suitable for the later stage of understanding, which is conducive to grasping and understanding the world as a whole.

The East pays attention to unity, and the West pays attention to it.

"The main difference between Eastern philosophy and Western philosophy is the difference in entry points.

Eastern philosophy is to first understand the essence and the core, and then to distinguish between concrete things.

Western philosophy is to first understand phenomena, then classify them one by one, and then look for the laws contained in the phenomena, and then find the essence from the laws. "

Western philosophy determines that Western science is based on experiments, therefore, most of the scientific laws are actually inverted from experimental phenomena, so in one respect, the so-called scientific laws do not exist in the world itself, but are used to describe what exists in the world itself, so this description is bound to be biased (for example, there will be a lot of approximations in physics).

The Chinese think differently. Zhuangzi once dreamed that he would turn into a butterfly, wondering whether he had become a butterfly in a dream, or if the butterfly had become himself in a dream. This is a questioning of the existence of ontology, a reflection on the nature of things.

If it is a Westerner, it must be concluded that Zhuangzi dreamed of butterflies, because with their habits of thinking, phenomena always have to come first, and they are more willing to use phenomena to prove the nature of uncertainty.

Book Recommendation:

1. "The Story of Philosophy" Will Durant.

2. "Your First Philosophy Book" Thomas Nagel.

3, "Philosophy and Life" Fu Peirong.

4. "The Big Question" Robert Solomon.

5. "The Solace of Philosophy" by Alain de Botton.

The real ontology of Western philosophy is the school of sages and the objective idealism represented by Plato and Aristotle after Socrates. Their ideas are in the same vein, but they are different: Plato divided the mind and being, the universal and the individual, while Aristotle advocated the unity of idea and substance.

In Chinese philosophy, the question of the nature of the world was inconclusive in the Zixue era (Spring and Autumn Period, Pre-Qin Dynasty), but there was still a shadow of idealism.

The objects of study in Chinese and Western philosophies are similar, but they differ in detail and direction. The so-called Chinese philosophy, that is, a certain kind of learning or some parts of it in China, can meet the definition of philosophy in Western philosophy; Chinese philosophers, on the other hand, are thinkers who produce, study, and write about Chinese philosophy.