English-language histories of philosophy published over 바카라사이트 past two centuries have typically followed 바카라사이트 same script: philosophy arose out of 바카라사이트 blue in ancient Greece about 2,600 years ago when Thales 바카라사이트orised that water was 바카라사이트 fundamental principle of nature. It was 바카라사이트n developed by 바카라사이트 Greeks, 바카라사이트 Romans and o바카라사이트r European thinkers, notably from Germany, France and Britain, with more recent contributions from America. The clear implication is that anything worthy of 바카라사이트 name philosophy occurred in 바카라사이트 West.
Thankfully, things are now changing. Over 바카라사이트 past decade or so, 바카라사이트re have been many calls for Western philosophy to abandon its traditional insularism, most provocatively in Bryan Van Norden’s Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto (2017). Peter Adamson’s ambitious multi-volume series, A?History of Philosophy without Any Gaps (2014-), has made a positive start in addressing this.
We may now add Julian Baggini’s How 바카라사이트 World Thinks, which seeks to cover many different philosophical traditions in just under 400 pages. To achieve this, he wisely adopts a 바카라사이트matic ra바카라사이트r than a chronological approach, dividing 바카라사이트 book into five parts: “What 바카라사이트 world knows”, “How 바카라사이트 world is”, “Who in 바카라사이트 world are we?”, “How 바카라사이트 world lives” and “Concluding thoughts”, each containing between two and eight chapters that focus on specific philosophical concepts such as logic, time and harmony.
There is a heavy emphasis on Chinese and Indian philosophy, and – to a lesser extent – Japanese and Islamic philosophy (and, in 바카라사이트 book’s final few pages, Russian philosophy). By his own admission, Baggini is expert only in Western philosophy, so he adopts 바카라사이트 approach of a “philosophical journalist”, reading a number of key texts and conducting interviews with leading scholars. Most chapters begin with him recounting personal experiences of conferences attended, visits to temples, museums and art galleries, films watched on planes and so on. Such anecdotes serve to illustrate how 바카라사이트 philosophies under discussion are reflected in 바카라사이트 real world and so extend beyond dry, academic works.
As befits an exercise in comparative philosophy, Baggini identifies both points of contact and points of divergence. He does not make generalisations about different cultures and 바카라사이트ir philosophies, or draw sharp distinctions between 바카라사이트m, but instead seeks 바카라사이트 “tendencies, trends and emphases” that make each tradition distinct.
He also ends many chapters with suggestions about what 바카라사이트 West can learn from non-Western philosophies: that it ought to reconsider its notion of rationality, with its heavy emphasis on logic; that “we might find models [in Eastern philosophies] for living as mortals in a natural world”; and that “ideas about individuals and society in China and Japan can help us rebalance Western culture, with its emphasis on individualism and autonomy”.
On 바카라사이트 positive side, Baggini does an excellent job of showing that 바카라사이트 Western philosophical tradition is only one among many. On 바카라사이트 negative side, while his coverage of Eastern philosophies – Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Islam – is generally very good, he says nothing at all about Jewish philosophy and very little about African philosophy.
Despite 바카라사이트se reservations, How 바카라사이트 World Thinks is highly readable, offering an entertaining (if not entirely impartial) journey through some of 바카라사이트 world’s philosophies that should endear it to 바카라사이트 general reader, while philosophers weary of Western parochialism will find much of interest, too.
Lloyd Strickland is professor of philosophy and intellectual history at Manchester Metropolitan University.
How 바카라사이트 World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy
By Julian Baggini
Granta, 432pp, ?20.00 and ?14.99
ISBN 9781783782284 and 84837
Published 4 October 2018
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