Thursday, July 9, 2015

wow. this is particularly terrible.

1) socrates asked a lot of questions, but he didn't lay much shit down. the only thing he knew was that he knew nothing.
2) nietschze was obsessed with "oriental knowledge". he was all about zoroastrianism.
3) voltaire despised basically everything. he had little more than contempt for western civilization.

you should replace the three westerners with glaucon, hegel and liebniz.

the caricature of chinese civilization is even worse. in fact, confucius is widely regarded as the ideological force behind china's return to capitalism. the hierarchical thinking is really just feudalism, and that existed in the west as well (although we never called it philosophy).