By Thorsten Pattberg
The East-West dichotomy is a philosophical proposal of historic starting place which claims that the 2 cultural hemispheres, East and West, built diametrically adversarial, one from the actual to the common and the opposite from the common to the actual; the East is extra inductive whereas the West is extra deductive. jointly they shape an equilibrium. # that includes defining and thought-provoking chapters on: * heritage * Induction & deduction * Asia-centrism * Equilibrium * Demography & Migration * Cultural results of the dichotomy * profitable versions * incommensurable realities * the idea of strength and to whom it belongs * the matter of ordinary * A loveless Darwinian wasteland * The psychology of communion * the matter with Nature * Ideology, Gender and lots of more... # together with over 345 references and 1000's of fees from ancient personalities # turning into the traditional paintings at the East-West discourse
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The East is pursuing the story in an inclusive form; the West segregates the beliefs of different regions separately. The West does not identify itself with the “inclusive approach” and right now is ejecting the ‘harmonizers’, like the ‘communists’ before them, out of the Western ideological hemisphere. - 50 - Indeed, after all the recent pre-emptive strikes on terrorists and failed states, the irreversible process of ‘westernization’ and ‘globalization’, the tiresome break with each and every civic code of mutual respect and noninterference in any nation’s internal affairs, and the desire to conquer nature and, if necessary, the traditional people and tribes that made a pact with nature – how can we not say that the deductive West is rejecting thoroughly, entirely the inductive Eastern notion of ‘harmoniousness’?
We come back to that in a minute. But first some more facts: Most sinologists and universal historians today more or less agree that before Xu Guangqi ( 徐 光 启 , 15621633) published his translation of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry in 1607, this kind of Greek/ Hellenistic, analytic-deductive driven mathematics and axiomatic proof-findings had been systematically unknown to Asia (Needham, 1964; Hart, 1999; Spence, 2001). Indeed, it took China’s mathematicians roughly 250 years, until in 1851 Alexander Wylie (1815-1887) and Li Shanlan (李善兰, 1811-1882) published the second half of the translation of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, to realize the practicability of axioms at all (Horng Wann-Sheng, 2001) What started off with the co-operation of Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci in 1607 later became the nucleus of an entirely new branch of Western scholarship – ‘The History of Science in China’.
Few people in China fear the punishment by law for one’s misbehavior. What is feared most is the ‘loss of face’, the ‘feedback from the collective’, the ‘wrath of one’s family’, one’s ‘father’s judgment’, and, yes, sometimes the Party official’s patronizing, if not infantilizing, words “This disgraceful ‘child’ now prefers to feel ashamed”. ”, Confucius replied: “It is the word ‘shu (恕)’ – reciprocity” (Confucius, Lun Yu, 15;23) As an interim result, let us say that this simple Golden Rule: “Do not onto others what you do not like yourself” is implemented in the West by laws and punishment, and in the East by morals and sense of shame: 道之以政，齐之以刑，民免而无耻，道之以德，有耻且格。 If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame.