Why is all asian philosophy so shitty compared to western philosophy?

China alone has a larger population than all of Europe and still you could literally pick any of the tiny european countries and they will have a bigger impact on philosophy than the entire asian continent. Confucius is a joke compared to Nietzsche, Plato, Aristotle or any other well known western philosopher. All Asian philosophy seem more like religion than actual philosophy and always boil down to some irrational bullshit premise that's not even attempted to be explained.

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Ever heard about Han Feizi?

What did you read?

I disagree pretty strongly in a number of ways. Before I continue with a response, what thinkers have you read within the eastern traditions?

Also the statement "all Asian philosophy sounds more like religion" just seems completely wrong when you look at Confucius's writings.

in your case, unironically ethnocentrism

in the case of philosophy as an academic discipline, language barrier and the "western" tradition as distinct from the "eastern" tradition: eastern philosophers will never be able to contribute to the western tradition unless they make attempts at fitting into western academia, speaking their language, and talking on the same points

Read Ricardo Duchesne's "The uniqueness of Western Civilisation".

Bunch'a pseud leftards.

>bullshit premise that's not even attempted to be explained.

>Confucianism: family
>Daoism: harmony
>Buddhism: peace

Yeah what bullshit unimportant things to think about

explain why pointing out that theyre incomparable traditions is pseud

The barriers are more porous than you might expect. I agree with your post, but it's not that strange for western and eastern thinkers to meet in conferences for particular topics. Taiwan hosts a reasonably sized gathering of Chinese and western thinkers on topics like environmental and Kantian ethics, for instance.

Plus a lot of the influence of eastern philosophy happened through the appropriating lens of our own western philosophers. (Kant and Leibniz come to mind)

Big part of that cross pollination was due to the Jesuits and their Latin translations of Chinese classics in the 17th-18th centuries.

If you're too lazy to read a fucking book you better drop any pretense of being better than other people.

Don't come into a thread, start an argument, and insult people who disagree you fucking faggot.

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>counting
>being as evil as possible
>dying in your 30's
they are impious, they never had an interest in it either.

The vast amount of rote memorization required to learn Mandarin hinders innovative thought.

That's why Chinese students today are such grinds.

Philosophy is a waste of time

A billion peasant is as likely to produce any good philosophy as ten. We have always had more actual intelectuals as a result of various factors, one being culture.

>Seems like religion
That's the point, doofus. Philosophy without religion is like dressing up a corpse.

Logocentrism builds buildings and nuclear weapons.

What are you even talking about when you say "Asia"? The map only has a few oriental countries in green. Anyways, there are hundreds of valuable writers and philosophers, from all sorts of different traditions.

Vyasa
Confucius
Lao Tzu
Al-Ghazali
Avicenna
Rumi
etc.,

Depends what you're looking for and what the incentive there was for these societies to develop your version of "philosophy" as a specific discipline.

This. Plato himself thought so

>Also the statement "all Asian philosophy sounds more like religion" just seems completely wrong when you look at Confucius's writings.

You obviously haven't read Confucius' writing, the guy literally believed he was ordained by the heavens.

Stop with this relativism bullshit. There's good and bad philosophy and it has nothing to do with language or misunderstanding of culture. If Confucius was some guy in ancient greece nobody would take him seriously or write about him. He might have been the wisest person among your 10 friends but if he tried to actually debate with the more intellectual part of greek society he would have been laughed out of the door. Sorry but "be nice to your parents and respect authority" isn't real philosophy.

Questioning assumptions is a Western philosophical phenomenon. Asian philosophy is just making wise extrapolations from unquestioned assumptions

Perhaps, but so is everything

In North America the word "Asian" is used as a polite term for Chinese people or similar looking races.

>asian philosophy
That's called religion user.

I watched this youtube.com/watch?v=0N_RO-jL-90 and have been listening to some podcast episodes about Confucius.

>has nothing to do with language or culture
Yeah, that's exactly why there is a singular global philosophy and no split exists between western and eastern philosophy.

>relativism

Stop fucking watching Peterson or Chomsky or whoever the fuck it is this time you pseud.