SV: [Y-Indology] De-Essentializing the 'Eastern Wisdom'.

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zydenbos [sMTP:zydenbos] skrev 10. mai 2001 19:29:

> It is not a beginning. Already decades ago, the German philosopher

> Karl Jaspers (Univ. of Heidelberg, later Univ. of Basel) wrote a book

> titled _Die ma?gebenden Menschen_ (we could translate this roughly

> as "People Who Set Standards"), and he included among these people the

> Buddha and Qiu Kong. In another book, titled _Die gro?en

> Philosophen_ (The Great Philosophers) he included Nagarjuna. (Jaspers

> came to my mind right away, but there may have been other European

> authors before him who attempted the same; I do not know.)

 

Having a look at my old philosophy books from the obligatory course on

history of philosophy at the beginning of university life, I find that Arne

Naess, the Norwegian philosopher who wrote the history of philosophy for

that course also included a section on non-Western philosophy, mostly

Indian and Chinese philosophy. Not a lot, but this was certainly not left

out.

 

Lars Martin Fosse

 

 

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