[MD] Anti-reductionism in the MOQ

[Heather Perella]

> Akshay:
>  Most people are first introduced to Eastern
> philosophy
> via Chinese thought (I Ching, Lao-tsu etc.), but
> since it is Indian
> thought
> that is the parent of all thought systems of the
> world (in fact, various
> scholars have began tracing "foreign" religions to
> direct
> correspondences
> with Indian thought, a commonly cited example being
> the relation between
> Latin Ju-piter, Greek Zeus Pater, and Sanskrit Dyaus
> Pita).



SA:  "...Indian thought that is the parent of all
thought systems of the world..."   It depends on what
you mean by "Indian", but I find this to be very
ethnocentric.  So, the Inca thought system can be
traced back to "Indian thought"?


SA  


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