Philosophical Differences Between East and West: Will the Future World Dominate the East or the West?

The fundamental purpose of philosophy is to answer a question:

- "For? ”

- Why? or For what?

The western sages were more concerned with the origin of matter, the laws of the operation of all things, and the West moved toward science in the process of searching for the answer to "why".

The philosophical thought of the East has promoted the great development of ethics in the society of the East, not caring much about the laws of all things in the world and only concerned with the harmony between themselves and nature, and the East has moved towards ethics in the process of exploring the answer to "for":-for?(for what)

One: The Direction of Western Philosophy: Science

From the Pythagorean school to Aristotle to Newton and Leibniz, to Einstein and Bohr... The West's curiosity about the laws of the world has led the West to "science", logic, argumentation, mathematics, physics, atomism, gravity, calculus, relativity, photoelectric effect, quantum mechanics, electromagnetic field theory, semiconductors and integrated circuits, wireless communication technology, steam engines, computers, nuclear fusion nuclear fission, all of which were born under Western scientific thought, leading the great development of human scientific civilization, and the improvement of human productivity in the past 200 years is innumerable times greater than the sum of human history. The Industrial Revolution led to the great development of human society in the past, present and at least for hundreds of years in the future.

However, the development of the "for" in the West is indeed very limited, the efforts to come out of the feudal imperial power and religious persecution and the bottom of society, experienced the industrial revolution into the oppressed and exploited workers on the production line, the indigenous peoples of Africa in the New World were treated as slaves, in order to open the world market to launch the Opium War against East Asia, burned and plundered in backward countries around the world, their own national class contradictions continue to escalate, racial contradictions, gender contradictions, partisan struggles, religious conflicts, loss of social ethics, The collapse of marriage and social structure, the sense of loss of young people slowly piled up.

Western philosophical thought has promoted the great development of Western science and technology, and it is not very concerned about people's own hearts and societies, but only about the laws and divine power of foreign affairs and all things.

——why? "They are God-centered, they worship God, they want to be Gods, they have the power of God"

Two: The Direction of Eastern Philosophy: Ethics

"The East is centered on people, and they worship the Great Confucianism, the Tao, the Dharma, and cultivate the body and mind." From the emperor, to the Great Yu Zhishui, to the "ritual" system of xia and shang zhou, Eastern philosophy has focused on order and social harmony from the beginning. From Lao Zhuang Mencius to Confucius to the realization of Confucianism, to the Hundred Sons and Hundred Schools of Thought, all reveal the social order and the harmony between man and nature, from "Tao Sheng one, all things in life" to the unity of heaven and man, from "etiquette, righteousness, honesty and shame" to "both love and non-attack", from Confucianism to Buddhism, whether in religion, mythology, or institutional and cultural, Eastern philosophy has always pursued harmony between people and people, harmony between man and nature

Eastern philosophy is less concerned with how the world comes from, how matter is produced, how the universe is produced, and rarely concerned with physics, chemistry, and other natural sciences, and The Orientals are more pragmatic and rarely think about very abstract affairs and laws that are far away from life.

Eastern philosophy has led Eastern civilization to an ethical society, and is doomed to lose the philosophical soil and social habit of science. Therefore, the industrial revolution and the great development of science are destined not to appear in the land covered by Eastern philosophy, and the backwardness in the new period of human history is doomed by objective laws.

Three: What kind of philosophy will the world of the future need?

Why? (high probability or more need to be, of course, for is also indispensable)

Is there a chance? The answer is yes, but after the unprecedented development of why, that is, after the great increase in productivity, after the liberation of all mankind, before that, it will be the development of philosophy and civilization dominated by why.

If Eastern society overcomes its own philosophical and social inertia and extremely advocates science and technology education, it will win, and vice versa, it will fail.

If Western society overcomes its own philosophical and social inertia and advocates people as much as possible, social harmony will develop more united and better, but on the contrary, it will not fail, but society will be very divided and painful, falling into a dark century of strife and chaos.

Fourth: Is there a way to integrate the two philosophies to promote a harmonious society while making science and technology develop?

The Soviet Union tried, leaving valuable lessons to learn and learn from, there is no successful experience in human history, Europe Germany is the most likely, and many German policies are already being tried.

This is followed by Japan, China, the rest of Europe, and the United States.

Five: Will the dominance of the future world belong to the East or the West?

Philosophical differences are at the heart of the differences between the two civilizations:

Eastern societies will triumph if they overcome their philosophical and social inertia and are extremely advocating science and technology education.

If Western society overcomes its own philosophical and social inertia and advocates people as much as possible, social harmony will develop more unity.

The key lies in the play of their own strengths and the compensation of their own weaknesses, and the key lies in the outcome bias of the game between the smartest people and the most powerful people in the two societies.

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