Western Philosophy Versus Eastern Philosophy

The domineering nature of the Negative Force in the human species is best seen in the Western culture which sees itself superior to others.

This is obvious in their colonization of the world wherein they imposed their culture onto others, without bowing down or absorbing those foreign cultures.

This extends even to philosophy. For example, Hegel does not think that the Asian way of thinking is correct:

By comparing the works of Confucius, Buddha, and the Vedas, with the works of Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, we see that the main difference is that the Asians do not need to give a step by step account for their thinking process.

The Europeans and Greeks, on the other hand, have to explain each step of their logic painstakingly. This makes the Western systems very tedious. More importantly, it also produces less useful things because the energy is wasted on the steps instead of the actual destination.

This is evident even in modern works. Hitler for example, rambles a lot in his Mein Kampf just to advance a few concepts:

• The superiority of the Germans
• The need to start a new World War to prove that superiority over the French, Jews, and Marxists.

Eastern Philosophy does not dwell into the thinking process because it aims for the actual cause or solution. This is why Buddhism points the cause of suffering to desires, and the solution to suffering as the control of the desires.

In contrast, Hegel and Kant merely ramble about things and do not produce anything memorable that would represent a solution to whatever they were rambling about.

Marx and Mill are more useful, as they create real policies as their proposed solutions to the problems that they perceive.

However, their difference from Eastern philosophy is that they are based on shallow observation and not the nature of things.

This is why the Capitalism of Mill and the Communism of Marx both end up not solving the problems of poverty, inequality, recessions, inflation, debt, etc.

This lack of detail in Asian philosophy is also its disadvantage.

This allows anyone to make their own interpretations and shortcuts.

It also gets weak-willed people lost since they are unable to jump from Step 1 to Step 50 by themselves.

Instead, they need a teacher to painstakingly teach them Step 2, Step 3, Step 4 and so on, instead of them discovering those mini-steps themselves.