3 difference between east following to west following
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1]Western Philosophy follows a vertical development, it can be understood as the teachings of Plato, Socrates, Epicurus, Aristotle led to Rationalist and Empiricist Philosophers, Kant unified up to some extent these two thoughts. Kant's idea were then further used by other philosophers
.2]Eastern Philosophy follows a parallel horizontal development, various schools of philosophy developed Independent from each other, each complete in its own respect.For example Buddhism, Jainism, Sankhya, Yoga school of thoughts are in themselves quite developed and are different from each other.
3]The Western Philosophy is intellectual curiosity about Epistemology or Metaphysical aspects. On the other hand the main aim of Eastern Philosophy is liberation of the individual, end to his suffering or Nirvana. All schools of Eastern Philosophy except Charvaka give special emphasis to liberation, and all the main propounders of Eastern Philosophy achieved liberation in their own way, be it Buddha, Mahavira, Shankaracharya. Contrary to this no western philosopher can really claim to have achieved liberation.Western philosophy was originally practiced in a very similar way. “Know thyself” was inscribed on the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in ancient Greece. Practiced famously by Socrates, philosophy was engaged as a sort of care of the self, or an investigation into the way the self and world exist. The philosophies of the Stoics, the Epicureans, the Skeptics, and Boethius were avowedly therapeutic. But after the 18th century, philosophy became more and more academicized; it was removed from practical, personal and transformational use. Western philosophy’s goal became to discover the grounds of scientific truth and the limits of man's ability to know it.
.2]Eastern Philosophy follows a parallel horizontal development, various schools of philosophy developed Independent from each other, each complete in its own respect.For example Buddhism, Jainism, Sankhya, Yoga school of thoughts are in themselves quite developed and are different from each other.
3]The Western Philosophy is intellectual curiosity about Epistemology or Metaphysical aspects. On the other hand the main aim of Eastern Philosophy is liberation of the individual, end to his suffering or Nirvana. All schools of Eastern Philosophy except Charvaka give special emphasis to liberation, and all the main propounders of Eastern Philosophy achieved liberation in their own way, be it Buddha, Mahavira, Shankaracharya. Contrary to this no western philosopher can really claim to have achieved liberation.Western philosophy was originally practiced in a very similar way. “Know thyself” was inscribed on the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in ancient Greece. Practiced famously by Socrates, philosophy was engaged as a sort of care of the self, or an investigation into the way the self and world exist. The philosophies of the Stoics, the Epicureans, the Skeptics, and Boethius were avowedly therapeutic. But after the 18th century, philosophy became more and more academicized; it was removed from practical, personal and transformational use. Western philosophy’s goal became to discover the grounds of scientific truth and the limits of man's ability to know it.
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