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Start with the Chinese

>> No.6243495

>>6243451
*Greeks

>> No.6243505

>not start with the Indians

Might as well tell people to start with the Romans

>> No.6243524

>>6243451
Proceed with the Persians

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>>6243451

chooma zaka wakku gamma

>> No.6243539

>>6243451
cao ni ma

>> No.6243553

>>6243451
Start with the Gods.

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>>6243451
<_<

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>>6243537
gammaism a shit

only unga woogas refute boomy-burny god

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>>6243451

>> No.6243582

>Get at it with the Greeks
>Change it up with the Chinese
>Peruse the Persians
>Elucidate yourself on the Egyptians
>Rendezvous with the Romans
>Jump in with the Japanese

>> No.6243593

>>6243451
Isn't it just tea rituals and communist manifestos? No thanks

>> No.6243597

>>6243582
Elongate your epidermis with the English.

>> No.6244011

Start with Kant then go back to find the truth.

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>>6243574

SHEEEEEEEEEEEEKAAAAAAAAAA

>> No.6244087

Yep

>> No.6244092

>>6243537
>>6243451
>>6243505
>>6243524
>not starting with panspermia and stardust
might as well tell people to start with John Green

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6244152

>Daoism
You need to be flexible in life.
>Confucianism
Respect for society, constant education, social hierarchy based on virtue/merit
>Zen
You're gonna die

/Eastern Philosophy

>> No.6244186

>>6244152
>Justkillme.jpg

>> No.6244200

>>6243553
There's only one, homey.

>> No.6244259

>>6243559
ayy lmao

>> No.6244335

>>6244152
>This is what /lit/tards actually believe

>> No.6245067

>>6243580
he's right you know.

>> No.6245156

>>6244335
You're right, it's actually even worse than that. Pre-Socratic tier at best, intellectually worthless compared to Western philosophy.

>> No.6245175

>>6245156
This, although it's still worth studying.>>6245156

>> No.6245179

Jokes aside, how can someone actually start with the chinese? Any chart.jpg?

>> No.6245186

>>6245179
They haven't written anything worth reading.

>> No.6245191

>>6245156
Chinese 'philosophy' is pure ideology with a specific political bent in a specific social context. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

>> No.6245284

>>6245191
Fuck off you idiot

>> No.6245288

>>6245156
Confirmed for having no idea what philosophy is.

>> No.6245295

>>6245179
>Any chart.jpg?
Yes, the 4chan Chinese lit chart.

>> No.6245337

>>6245284
Daoism isn't a philosophy. (Or, rather, not just a philosophy.) It's a mystery cult like the pythagoreans, dionysians, etc. It lives on till today as feng shui.

>> No.6245744

>>6243524
Begin with the babylonians

>> No.6245762

>>6245179
The Daodejing is an interesting introduction to dialectic.
I haven't read any Chinese literature proper but it seems like most of it is anime in prose form.
The Greeks are deeper and better.

>> No.6245816

>>6245762
>I haven't read any Chinese literature
>but here, take this unsubstantiated claim even though I just admitted I know nothing

>> No.6245829

>>6245816
Damn straight. Welcome to /lit/. It's already been established ITT that Chinese culture is pure ideology.

>> No.6245832

>>6245191
Stick to posting in recent purchase threads buddy.

>> No.6245896

>>6245816
Hey, at least anon made their complete lack of knowledge clear before putting forward an opinion.

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>>6245337

This isn't entirely wrong but it's still damn misleading. Foundations of what we now call Daoism predate any use of that term and may be found in the text Zhuangzi, which is certainly philosophical in nature and does not propose any cult or any "mysteries" apart from a general skepticism and consequent mystification of absolutely everything. It does however cite existing Chinese traditions of folk religion, wizardry, alchemy, shamanism, whatever you want to call it, and references numerous existing Chinese myths to support its arguments. Among these mythic figures is Lao Dan, as the text calls him. The notion of the Daodejing, written by this mysterious Master Lao, responds to Zhuangzi and doesn't predate it (though necessarily the notion of Laozi himself must). It's important to stress that Zhuangzi did not call himself a daoist and the term would not have meant anything in his time. It is a product of a later age of scholarship looking back at old texts and trying to classify them into discrete schools when the reality was a lot messier than that. Zhuangzi cites Confucius, and makes shit up about him, far more often than he mentions Lao Dan.

Our notions of what "daoism" means tend, in the west, to stem from what we know of these works, but in Chinese there are two words we translate as "daoism": 道家, the "house/school of the dao" and 道教, the "teachings of dao". The former is what I've just talked about, philosophical tradition of writers called daoists. The latter is considered the blending of the former with the existing Chinese folk religion which is itself vast umbrella term for huge number of unaffiliated cults, liturgical groups, random shit white people do in order to look profound; etc. You can say it is a mystery cult, but that is nonsense, it is a whole lot more than one cult and insofar as these cults have daoistic "flavor" that has more to do with the education of the priests than with anything believed or done by the "faithful".

>It lives on today as feng shui.

ayyy lmao

>> No.6245998

>>6243451
>ching chongs
>contributing anything to the world

oh, op, you are a funny bitch aren't you?

>> No.6246030

>>6243582
Not
>Get it on with the Greeks

BECAUSE THEY'RE GAY - GET IT?!?!!?