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I wonder why as well

>>13761212
You know there are other countries right?

Nope. The chinks are just rehashing phenomenology and marxism.

>Indian Whitehead out there, right?
Indians aren't capable of philosophical thought, it appears to have been bred out of them. You cannot get the concept or concerns of philosophy through to an Indian, he'll just look at you with a sort of mixed incredulity and contempt at the idea of pursuing anything other than a life of thankless labour in the service of your family.

>>13761207
It's because those types of superfluous philosophers are quickly forgotten in favor of the heavyweights

>>13761207
Why is Mr, Meow in a folder of anime girls?

>>13761207
The Buddha is the Indian Whitehead. Literally sat under a tree and thought really hard until he realized that process metaphysics was correct. He just used that information for soteriological purposes.

Dogen is the Asian Deleuze.

Zen is the most interesting school of philosophy in existence. Perfect metaphysical insight combined with humanistic application. Read Zen Action Zen Person. Zen got to post-structuralism before the post-structuralists.

>>13761246
They were ignorant of the scientific method so there's no point going back to read them.

>>13761207
The other races are still in the physical /hylic or have advanced to the spiritual/pneumatic. Only the Euro sits in the psychic where nothing is done yet too much is said. Bless us for this disease. But now the East Asians have fallen back into mechanical intellect again. They're ready to produce new philosophies rooted entirely in business and robotics. Nick Land will look like the quaint zen master precursor to a yuppie chink army coming up.

>>13761292
Zen preemptively debunks the scientific method/delimits the boundaries of its possible knowledge

>>13761246
Zen is like academic, masochistic Lacanian analysis.

>>13761207
It isn't. It's Judeocentric.

>>13761207
China is busy circlejerking over the 200th edition of Confucianism and the Japanese produced decent philosophy until recently, but are now somehow deepthroating analytic philosophy, if they do any philosophy at all, thanks to market pressure.

>>13761225
>Indians aren't capable of philosophical thought, i

L O L

>>13761437
Pajeet

Just because 2 % or so of the Indian population belongs to the Brahmin caste with its Indo-European ancestry doesn't mean that all of India is like them. And since we know that it was the Indo-Aryans who brought their religion and philosophy to India, these things hardly count as genuine Indian inventions. When the Indo-Aryan people stopped being because of race-mixing, all philosophy ceased developing and stagnated.

>>13761437
>it appears to have been bred out of them

Did your knee jerk all the way to your up to your thick skull or something?

>>13761460
>>13761225

>(YOU)

wow

>>13761406
Based.
>>13761379
Should I get the Shobo Genzo or Kitaro Nishida?

>>13761452
>>13761460
Even the best Euro philosophers agree with the Indians being the best.

>>13761379
If Zen is so good then why doesn't a single modern state draw inspiration from it? The only people who follow it are larpers.

>>13761207
The Buddha was the only interesting thinker to come from the East.

The rest are pretty much trash

>>13761499
India isn't an intellectual wasteland unlike pre-Colombian America or Africa but much of its productivity is dwarfed by the huge relative share of population which India had for most of its history. The caste system also guarantueed that most intelligent people (mostly Brahmins) could learn and pursue religious studies. Most Indian people are however completely incapable of philosophical thought. This in fact measures quite well with the general weak intelligence the average Indian has but malnutrition and diseases also have their toll. Still, 70 years of independence and the life of the average Indian has hardly changed since colonial times. India has nukes, research centers, even satellites. The massive gap between the more intelligent and the less intelligent people are clearly visible and the Indian nation tendentially makes good use of its more intelligent members.

>>13761246
Buddhism is definitely not process metaphysics. Perhaps, certain Realist Theravada schools could be said to have process metaphysics, but the Buddha of the early texts did not.

>>13761512
Japan? Only stopped being openly zen after they got their ass kicked

>>13761533
Pre-Colombian America and Africa have great stuff. There's even books on it.

>>13761544
Not really.
We only have some snippets of Aztec and Mayan mythology. Everything else has been colored by the views of post-Columbian colonials and clergy. We really have no idea what their untouched philosophies were.

As for sub-Saharan Africa. cringe Y yikes

>>13761512
>>13761537

Because it's not usable for statecraft without seriously perverting its doctrines. Detachment and no-self aren't really useful for getting people to kill other people. Such a tightly defined soteriology isn't really useful for much besides soteriology.

>>13761537
Shinto was the state religion during that time, wasn't it? All the buddhists were seen as decadent and unable to do anything about the west during the Meiji period.

>>13761535
sunyata is literally process metaphysics. I'm not the only person who has thought this. Nietzsche and Buddhist philosophy is a really interesting comparative work that explicates this through Nietzsche.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śūnyatā

>>13761207
adi shankara and sramana schools are modern by eastern standards

>>13761207
There's an entire modern Buddhist school of philosophy.

>>13761452
>WE WUZ INDO-EUROPEANS AND SHIEET
kys

Because European philosophy IS philosophy.
Eastern philosophy is just dude weed lmao bullshit and to compare it to the Greeks and Germans is beyond absurd.

The east does have its philosopher.
Hes called confucius and it was decided that to keep going would be to pervert his philosophy.
And they were right. The west has produced a bunch degenerate marxist drivel since they dont know when to stop.

>>13761246
>implying any of these people weren't decedents from the Indo-European migrations
>implying humanism is good

>>13761207
>Surely the other races have come up with some interesting material.
They didn't. Nobody but europeans actually care.

>>13761246
>Literally sat under a tree and thought really hard until he realized that process metaphysics was correct.
And then parmenides BTFO him.
I dont remember the exact timeframes so I dont know if he did so retroactively or proactively tho.

>>13761246
>Zen is the most interesting school of philosophy in existence.
Why You Lie.

>>13761499
Only larpers like schopenauer or whitehead.

>>13761918
Don' k ow what you meant that to mean,t but sure

>>13761207
>Surely the other races have come up with some interesting material.
Jews have. Pretty much the only ones though.

Mao killed all the philosophers, pol pot killed all the smart people and japanese people kill themselves.

>>13761246
>Perfect metaphysical insight
What is its perfect metaphysical insight?

>>13761207
Non-whites aren't creative or interested in the types of existential and societal issues whites are. Only a small minority of white men are. Stop projecting white male nature onto others, you racist.

>>13762947
>Stop assuming subhumans are humans like you, You racist!
You almost had it.

>>13761337
the industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for asian society

>>13761207
>>>/his/