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Philosophy

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-08 20:03 ID:FdQqGUm3

So I just finished reading Sophie's World, which was an amazing introduction to western philosophy. What I want to know is, is there a similar book regarding eastern philosophy?

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-10 16:05 ID:CLc5/rvV

Ignore eastern philosophy its a waste of time

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-12 5:51 ID:tVRmIdWM

Tao Te Ching is a popular light read, a perfect introduction to eastern philosophy (no!).

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-12 6:20 ID:LWoEtKAE

nip nong ching chong

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-13 6:27 ID:D5aZtnzO

Eastern philosophy is a bit of a bad conflation.  Really, you have your Chinese, your Indian, and your Islamic philsophies.  While they all interacted with one another there's no continuity between them.  Also there's totally crazy fringe stuff like sikhism which kind of exists in and of itself.

A History of Chinese Philosophy is good for Chinese.

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-13 23:04 ID:HoK6wph6

>>5
Islamic philosophy is not usually included with Eastern philosophy.

Also, Indian philosophy is also usually divided away from East Asian philosophy, since, while being connected by the thread of Buddhism, they lose a lot of similarity past that. Usually when people say "Eastern philosophy," they refer to the East Asian, Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, 100 Schools of Thought sort of stuff.

To the Op, none off the top of my head, but you could just jump right into some of the texts. If you want to be mindfucked by Chan Buddhism really quickly, go read Wumen's Gate (aka The Gateless Gate), the Blue Cliff Record, or even the Heart Sutra (I recommend Red Pine's translation, as his explanations are a rather nice companion to the text.) If you want Taoism, you'll have to go with the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi, no way around it. If you're looking for other things, you can go with the Confucian classics (Analects, Spring and Autumn Annals, etc.) and other such texts which came out of the Hundred Schools of Though (Mozi and such) or Neo-Confucian texts, Menciu, Xun Zi, etc. Don't skip over Legalism, however, that gets lost in there quite easily.

Also, Japanese Buddhist texts can be worth the read, but are mostly either A. Zen texts or B. From uniquely Japanese schools of Buddhism, not that this is bad, but means that you miss on a broader picture.

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-17 13:01 ID:y+UGF4Un

>>2

Word! Western philosophy rocks my world.

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-21 21:15 ID:di3khGaD

The Tao Of Pooh

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-04 23:47

Anybody interested in critical theory in general, Theodor Adorno in particular? For that matter, has anyone read any of Douglas Kellner's work?

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