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Dr Sohn's lecture
Is Greek Philosophy only true philosophy?
The professor of "the great ideas of Philosophy" argues that the Greek Philosophy is the origin of most studies and it's the philosophy and others such as India, Buddha, Confucius, the culture of ancient Egypt didn't developed as philosophy, with these reasons why they are religious and focus on practical problems. He claims Philosophy is the love of wisdom for the possibility of getting it right.
However, Dr Sohn refutes that the oriental civilization owned their ideas and philosophies much earlier and better than what the Greek people found. But the difference is, while the Greek people concentrated on finding and discovering the principles of the world and the life with scientific perspectives, the people in India and China focused on how to get it practice in their own mind.
Didn't the Greek philosophy create many achievements in their world?
Yes, they developed in the scientific way with the outlook of materialism so that they could gain the rich material power and the influence, seemingly conquering all over the world. On the other hand, the people in India and China highly developed in the mental way focusing on their mind so that, though they are estimated as poor people in the view of material, the statistics tell us that the happiest people in the world live in the countries such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, known as developing countries.
Nowadays, we can see that the European societies are collapsing in the core behind their magnificent achievements and, western people begin to seek for what they lost from the Asian culture, especially Indian.
The things to think.
We are learning the western things like philosophy, English and techniques because it's necessary for our life. But losing the better but invisible one owing to gaining the relatively worse one in the longrun. Isn't it a unexchangeable loss?
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