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Anonymous Tue Dec 15 16:59:57 2015 No.7467231 [Reply] [Original]

What is a good survey/introduction of Indian Philosophy? And one of Chinese Philosophy?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:02:15 2015 No.7467243 indian philosophy a very short introduciton

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:04:54 2015 No.7467251 File: 70 KB, 539x572, Untitled9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw you came into /lit/ just in time for it's eastern philosophy age

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:06:14 2015 No.7467256 >>7467243 I've heard it suffers from being very short lol. Have you read it? What you say it has given you good direction for further reading? >>7467251 Just you wait till Yang Zhu replaces Stirner

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:18:20 2015 No.7467312 The Wonder That Was India by A.L. Basham Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India-China-Tibet-Japan by Hajime Nakamura

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:19:18 2015 No.7467321 >>7467231 historyofphilosophy.net is going through Indian Philosophy now

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:23:48 2015 No.7467348 >>7467312 Cheers man >>7467321 Thanks fella; I'm not big on podcasts, but I'll take a peak at them anyway--their presocratic podcasts helped me with Parmenides

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:27:58 2015 No.7467372 >>7467231 Bhagavad Gita

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:41:38 2015 No.7467444 Anything for the Chinese lads?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:43:44 2015 No.7467452 >>7467251 >Eastern philosophy Literally only dogmatic mysticism bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:45:47 2015 No.7467460 >>7467452 That 'dogmatic mysticism' actually helps you towards achieving some semblance of peace in this shit world, more so than any western philosophy anyway.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:46:45 2015 No.7467465 >>7467452 >>7467460 Both of you are being silly

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:49:09 2015 No.7467470 File: 273 KB, 450x450, 1449769761317.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7467460 >this entire post

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 17:51:38 2015 No.7467489 File: 25 KB, 257x300, YangZhu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7467470 >posting Stirner >not the beast from the east Real fucking unpleasurable lolmao

>>	SYK FUK RUKUS Tue Dec 15 18:06:17 2015 No.7467554 http://fucktheory.tumblr.com/post/18168780203/western-philosophy-and-eastern-philosophy This will cover 80% of what you should know about Eastern philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 18:13:42 2015 No.7467585 >>7467554 Thanks, but that hasn't helped me find a general introduction to Indian philosophy; an interesting read nonetheless.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 15 19:05:01 2015 No.7467744 >>7467452 You'd really like the Carvakas. They were the fedoras of ancient India.