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Austria, Kier
Dizon, Rosamae
Estorpe, Ejay
Marasigan, Ann Karyll
Maray, John Michael
Recto, Jezrel Ivan
 • Some religions and
culture practices
in eastern thoughts
• WESTERN THOUGHT
• Sample of Western Culture
• Two included Philosophies
in Western Thought

• Similarities and differences

• Importance of philosophies

•THERE ARE SOME MAIN • EASTERN THOUGHT

PRINCIPLES OF
EASTERN PHILOSOPHY
• 5 ensuing article on the history
of western philosophy

• who is father of western philosophy

• Father of Eastern Philosophies
• When the western Philosophy started?
WESTERN THOUGHT

Tend to answer
affirmatively and
Tends to focus on the
think of the self as an
parts in an idea,
entity separate from
others
Sample of Western Culture

French Culture

Spanish Culture

British Culture
 Two included Philosophies in
Western Thought
1. CRITICAL THEORY - A philosophical approach to culture, and
especially to literature, that seeks to
confront the social, historical, and
ideological forces and structures that
produce and constrain it. The term is
applied particularly to the work of the
Frankfurt School.
2. STRUCTURALISM - A method of interpretation and analysis
of aspects of human cognition,
behavior, culture, and experience that
focuses on relationships of contrast
between elements in a conceptual
system that reflect patterns underlying a
superficial diversity.
 •Socrates of Athens (l. c.
470/469-399 BCE) is among the
Who is the most famous figures in world
father of history for his contributions to
Western the development of ancient
Greek philosophy which
Philosophies? provided the foundation for all
of Western Philosophy. He is,
in fact, known as the "Father
of Western Philosophy" for this
reason.
 5 ensuing article on the history of western philosophy

Ancient Renaissance Contemporary

Medieval Modern
EASTERN THOUGHT

Preferred to generalize
A diverse body of
the ideas and show
approaches to life and
how they reflect the
philosophizing
same truths
 Some religions and culture practices in
eastern thoughts
Confucianism is an ancient Chinese
Confucianism- belief system, which focuses on the
importance of personal ethics and
morality

Taoism (also spelled Daoism) is a religion

and a philosophy from ancient China that
Taoism-
has influenced folk and national belief.
Taoism has been connected to the
philosopher Lao Tzu, who around 500
B.C.E.
 
Buddhism is a faith that was founded by
Buddhism- Siddhartha Gautama (“the Buddha”) more
than 2,500 years ago in India. With about 470
million followers, scholars consider Buddhism
one of the major world religions. ... Many
Buddhist ideas and philosophies overlap with
those of other faiths.

Hinduism- Hinduism is the world’s oldest religion, according

to many scholars, with roots and customs dating
back more than 4,000 years.
Hinduism is unique in that it’s not a single religion
but a compilation of many traditions and
philosophies.
 •THERE ARE SOME MAIN PRINCIPLES OF EASTERN
PHILOSOPHY
ahimsa (non-violence)- Ahimsa, (Sanskrit: “noninjury”) in the Indian religions of
Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, the ethical principle of
not causing harm to other living things. ... For a
householder observing the small vows (anuvrata), the
practice of ahimsa requires that one not kill any animal life

The primary of Guru-

Guru, (Sanskrit: “venerable”) in Hinduism, a personal

spiritual teacher or guide. From at least the mid-1st
millennium BCE, when the Upanishads (speculative
commentaries on the Vedas, the revealed scriptures of
Hinduism) were composed, India has stressed the
importance of the tutorial method in religious instruction.
•Love of truth in many The Manifestation of God (Persian: ‫ مظهـر ظـهـور‬maẓhar
manifestations as ẓohūr) is a concept in the Baháʼí Faith that refers to what
are commonly called prophets. The Manifestations of
Gods and goddesses- God are appearances of the Divine Spirit or Holy Spirit in
a series of personages, and as such, they perfectly reflect
the attributes of the divine into the human world for the
progress and advancement of human morals and
civilization through the agency of that same Spirit.[1]

• Understanding that-
While the atman is the essence of an individual, Brahman
the essential
is an unchanging, universal spirit or consciousness which
spark of the divine underlies all things. They are discussed and named as
( atman/brahman ) distinct from one another, but they are not always thought
of as distinct; in some schools of Hindu thought, atman is
Brahman
The divine word of aum-
The “AUM” symbol (or OM – the symbol in the center)
symbolizes the Universe and the ultimate reality. It is the
most important Hindu symbols. ... It is considered AUM
(OM) which represents the three aspects of God: the
Brahma (A), the Vishnu (U) and the Shiva (M).

The power of mantras-

Mantra, in Hinduism and Buddhism, a sacred utterance
(syllable, word, or verse) that is considered to possess
mystical or spiritual efficacy. Various mantras are either
spoken aloud or merely sounded internally in one’s
thoughts, and they are either repeated continuously for
some time or just sounded once. Most mantras are
without any apparent verbal meaning, but they are
thought to have a profound underlying significance and
are in effect distillations of spiritual wisdom
  Lao Tzu, also rendered as Laozi and Lao-
Tze, was an ancient Chinese philosopher
and writer. He is the reputed author of the
• Father of Tao Te Ching, the founder of
Eastern philosophical Taoism, and a deity in
Philosophies religious Taoism and traditional Chinese
religions.
 •Philosophy in the West begins in the
Ionian Greek colonies of Asia Minor
with Thales of Miletus
When the western (l. c. 585 BCE) who inspired the later
Philosophie writers known as the Pre-Socratic
started? philosophers whose ideas would then
inform and influence the iconic works
of Plato (l. 428/427-348/347 BCE) and
his student Aristotle of Stagira.
 Western difference
• if focuses on what you believe in
yourself even if some one says a
different point of view Eastern
difference
Similarities • it focuses on collecting ideas from
and differences people who provide insight into our
problem

Similarities
• they are both focused on what is
truth and virtues
 •The study of philosophy enhances
a person's problem-solving
capacities. It helps us to analyze
Importance of concepts, definitions, arguments,
philosophies and problems. It contributes to
our capacity to organize ideas and
issues, to deal with questions of
value, and to extract what is
essential from large quantities of
information.