/lit/ - Literature

Is anyone here familiar with Chinese and east-Asian philosophy? I'm working my way through Confucius/Mencius and it's so abstract and it's completely worlds apart from the logic based philosophy of the west. So much so that I'm beginning to question if the word 'philosophy' can even apply. AFAIK the word 哲学 was literally coined by a Japanese scholar because there's no word or precedence for it in the east.

And I'm not being eurocentric here. There are some disciplines that just aren't universal. There's no or analysis or debate in CHinese philosophy all. It's more like semi-spiritual yet secular, monistic, didactic ethics.

>the top that spins most violently is a Beyblade
what did he mean by this?

>>11546
/lit/ guys have more self awareness and have actually contemplated the nature of women

/fit/ guys just project "I like pretty lady, maybe she like big stronk man?"

Where should I start with this guy?

there is power in pride

>>7006643
>who are too lazy to enact their work drives them over the edge

It's Narcissism in the vast majority of cases. If these intellectuals lived twenty years ago, or manage to live another twenty years, they would be celebrated and known throughout the world.

Only our peculiar time inhibits excellence.

Honestly though, some of our brightest need to understand that work done today can have tremendous benefit in the future, even if they themselves would never live to see it.

The hard part is figuring out how to transmit the useful knowledge.

>Pic related
>Most prominent scholar in East Asian history
>Actually defined the culture of East Asia as we know it.
>Lived in a time of utter decadence, was ignored.
>Died in Obscurity.
>Was recognized for his genius only after two centuries of hellish warfare, followed by (the worlds first?) totalitarian dictatorship.;

Its hard to overestimate people today, but too many people underestimate what mankind will be in the future, and what it was in the past.