Tradition
Eastern philosophy
Overview
set of philosophies originating in Asia
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It of necessity excludes all want and struggle and all dependencies. It is neither practical nor social. Nothing is left but a self-revolving, self-sufficing thought engaged in contemplating its own sufficiency. Some forms of Oriental morals have united this logic with a profounder psychology, and have seen that the final terminus on this road is Nirvana, an obliteration of all thought and desire. In medieval…
John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct
The author is tied to Eastern philosophy in the knowledge graph.
Now the image was set up rather more than three hundred years after the Nirvâna of Buddha, which may be referred to the reign of king P'ing of the Chow dynasty. According to this account we may say that the diffusion of our great doctrines in the East began from the setting up of this image. If it had not been through that Maitreya, the great spiritual master who is to be the successor of the Sâkya, who could have…
Confucius, Chinese literature
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Its position is preliminary, and we only deal with it at all in order to account for not treating of it at greater length, and to show in what relation it stands to Thought and to true Philosophy. The expression Eastern philosophy is specially employed in reference to the period in which this great universal Oriental conception aroused the East—the land of circumscription and of limitation, where the spirit of…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Eastern philosophy is; names Eastern philosophy twice.
Philosophers who discussed Eastern philosophy
- Kitarō Nishida
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Nagarjuna
- Julius Evola
- Carl Jung
- Swami Vivekananda
- Aldous Huxley
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Edmund Husserl
- Abdolkarim Soroush
- Hayashi Razan
- Motoori Norinaga
- Gholamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani
- Mohammad Nasroen
- Ikki Kita
- Lương Kim Định
- Michael Zammit
- Yasuo Yuasa
Related ideas
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Tirthankara
- Kitarō Nishida
- Deva (Hinduism)
- Dvaita Vedanta
- Vishishtadvaita
- Tang Chun-i
- Brahma Sutras
- Keiji Nishitani
- Pashupata Shaivism
- Ishvara
- Xuanxue
- Government
- Outline of ancient India
- Abhinavagupta
- Ājīvika
- Buddhist logico-epistemology
- Dignāga
- Je Tsongkhapa
- Ahimsa in Jainism
- Hinduism
- Hindus
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
Place in the tradition
Part of Australian philosophy.