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How come Asians are dominating academia but we have yet to see any great modern Asian philosopher?

>> No.10864734

>>10864729
Because they never had a good philosophical tradition, it's for the same reason that anglo analytic department produced only a couple of good philosophers but never a "great" one, hubris simply isn't part of their mind-discourse. Philosophy is all a language game.
There's also the fact that today knowledge is inclined towards tecnical/scientifical disciplines.

>> No.10864745

>>10864729
mao killed all smart people

>> No.10864764
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10864764

>>10864729
>anglo analytic department produced only a couple of good philosophers but never a "great" one
>Philosophy is all a language game

>> No.10864770

>>10864764
witty wasn't part of an anglo department lol

>> No.10864778

If you ever lived in Asia, and you're not some dork ass TEFL'er, you'll realize that Asians aren't actually very 'smart'. That high IQ of them is wasted on specializiation. Because of that they know jack shit about anything else that isn't their field.
I've yet to meet an Asian who has a hollistic worldview that crosses over many fields.

inb4 dude making an anecdotal reference to his super smart phd gf

>> No.10864783

>>10864770
>Cambridge isn't an anglo department

>> No.10864796

>>10864778
This.

Have you ever gone to college? The Asians there don't know shit - they literally just regurgitate the lecture notes or whatever they've memorised, ask them to elaborate or think outside the box and they're totally lost.

>> No.10864797

>>10864729
>How come Asians are dominating academia

Dominating how much money you hand to overpriced colleges is not dominating academia. They literally let in any halfwit slopehead who can barely speak English because they get to charge non-Western students absurd quantities to get a meaningless stamp

>> No.10864803

>>10864770
>witty wasn't part of an anglo department lol
The fuck? Yes he was

>> No.10864806

>>10864803
>>10864783
what I meant is that he was self-taught, or at least he didn't learn phil at university

>> No.10864808

>>10864806
He did spend considerable time being personally tutored by Russell though

>> No.10864816

>another "thinly-veiled" racebait thread

>>>/pol/

>> No.10864826

>>10864778
Do Indians count here? This definitely applies to them.

>> No.10864828

>>10864826
They do but no one actually thinks they're smart to begin with

>> No.10864837

>>10864734
they only had middle tier losers like lao tzu, if only they had access to the works of luminaries like Thomas 'things moving means jesus must have been the son of god' Aquinas

>> No.10864845

>>10864837
eastern "philosophy" is very different from our platonic-aristotelic kind of philosophy

>> No.10864848

>>10864837
>if only they had access to the works of luminaries like Thomas 'things moving means jesus must have been the son of god' Aquinas

Why do things move then?

>> No.10864860

>>10864797

This so much. Especially in the humanities, I’ve yet to come across asians come up with thoughts of their own.

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10864861

>>10864848
Becoming is illusionary. All that is, is.

>> No.10864965

>>10864861
Gibberish

>> No.10864986

>>10864729
byung chul-han

>> No.10864992

>>10864965
nope

>> No.10866201

>>10864986
who dis

>> No.10866203

Tao

>> No.10866273

>>10864734
lol, more like cause they had the humanities more or less figured out 2,500 years ago.

so did the west but we continued to meme around in circles until we got right back to where we were at the beginning of the entire endeavor.