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50 - The East in the West

Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

from Section Nine - Comparative Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2019

Kelly Becker
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
Iain D. Thomson
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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The task of this chapter is to consider the impact of Asian philosophies on the English-speaking philosophical world from 1945 to 2015. While this time period has been profoundly productive of philosophical engagements across cultural boundaries, it is important to begin by noting that the history of philosophy is itself a history of ideas, texts, and thinkers crossing linguistic and geographical borders. Only relatively recently have European and American philosophers considered philosophy to be a distinctly “Western” pursuit. In the beginning of modern European engagement with Asia in the sixteenth century, for instance, many Europeans counted Asian traditions and civilizations as partners in – even the originators of – philosophical inquiry. Since the reconstruction of the “philosophical canon” in the eighteenth century, however, the discipline has been largely Eurocentric, and this has resulted in dramatic inequities in the terms of engagement with Asian philosophical traditions (Park 2013). Much early comparative work, in fact, often treats Western traditions as the gold standard, frequently doing violence to non-Western traditions in forcing them to try to conform to artificial, external standards (Kirloskar-Steinbach, Ramana, and Maffie 2014.)

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