All cultures are different, and have different ways of thinking.
In How the World Thinks, Julian Baggini travels the globe to provide a
hugely wide-ranging map of human thought. He shows us how distinct
branches of philosophy flowered simultaneously in China, India and
Ancient Greece, growing from local myths and stories - and how
contemporary cultural attitudes, with particular attention to the West,
East Asia, the Muslim World and Africa, have developed out of the
philosophical histories of their regions.
Interviewing
thinkers from all around the world, he asks why, for instance, do our
European systems of governments and justice differ so widely from the
East? Why can Islam not easily incorporate secular knowledge? How do we
understand China? By gaining greater knowledge of how others think, we
can become less certain of the knowledge we think we have, the first
step to greater understanding.
How the World Thinks : A Global History of Philosophy - Julian Baggini
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