Accents of the World's Philosophies
1957; University of Hawaii Press; Volume: 7; Issue: 1/2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1396829
ISSN1529-1898
Autores Tópico(s)Global History, Politics, and Ideology
ResumoBandung Conference conference of children without their fathers, it was merely voicing in straightforward language the superiority over other peo-ples which most Westerners have long assumed. But when the Indonesian Foreign Ministry came back in kind, declaring that such a comment could come only from an underdeveloped mind, the retort was evidence of a new day. East and West are no longer meeting; they are being hurled at each other. But what is really new is that for the first time in the modern world they face each other as equals. Compared with this double fact-East-West depth encounter on the basis of full equality--everything else about the twentieth century is likely in time to appear episodic. The primary problem world-encounter poses for philosophy is that of synthesis, for philosophy is never happy about unintegrated perspectives. This paper, working in broad strokes and risking oversimplification to keep the outlines clear, takes its place among other recent attempts to see the philosophies of East and West in relation. It differs in tone as well as solution from Arthur Schopenhauer's attempt to subordinate Western thought to that of the East and from Schweitzer's effort to do the reverse. As to the existing non-invidious schemes, of which F. S. C. Northrop's is the most thorough and best known, the purpose of the present statement is not to challenge these but to supplement them by suggesting a somewhat different approach.' In this matter of intercultural understanding we are at the begin-
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