Re:If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Real...
by ricksplat on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:16PM
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> Augustine, Aquinus
> nuggets of so-called wisdom presented without argument
I think P-1 is half right in that Augustine and Aquinas are similar to the Eastern philosophy described by P.
These great catholic philosophers were of a scholastic [0] tradition, relying on syllogistic reasoning alone - deriving from certain axioms similar to the "nuggets" of eastern wisdom.
I don't think it's necessarily fair to lump Descartes and Kant into this category as they were far more of the inductive tradition. The former was writing at a time when to write about such a thing could be considered heresy, so he had to work around some of these "axioms". The latter wasn't so much religious as informed by his cultural context.
> nuggets of so-called wisdom presented without argument
I think P-1 is half right in that Augustine and Aquinas are similar to the Eastern philosophy described by P.
These great catholic philosophers were of a scholastic [0] tradition, relying on syllogistic reasoning alone - deriving from certain axioms similar to the "nuggets" of eastern wisdom.
I don't think it's necessarily fair to lump Descartes and Kant into this category as they were far more of the inductive tradition. The former was writing at a time when to write about such a thing could be considered heresy, so he had to work around some of these "axioms". The latter wasn't so much religious as informed by his cultural context.
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholasticism