Is their philosophy taken to be serious?

[Anonymous No.14988176]

I‘m majoring in western philosophy and considering taking a class in Indian’s philosophy. The other day I asked my prof what he thinks about it and he dismissed Indian’s philosophy as something like “a mere convoluted, non-Western, unscientific bullshit”. What do you guys think of it? Can I find something in their philosophy that is not already written in Western philosophy?

[Anonymous No.14988188]

what kind of university are you studying in? Your prof sounds based
on a more serious note, Indic philosophy is pretty cool all larping aside, there are some very interesting ideas in there and it comes in a package with some really nice poetry and a very rewarding language to learn
>Can I find something in their philosophy that is not already written in Western philosophy?
This is a weird question to answer, Western and Indic philosophy have been interwined since the Hellenistic years with Pyrrho's travels and more general Greco-Indic interraction.
Indic influence appears again in eighteenth and especially nineteenth century philosophy when Europe rediscovers India, with Schopenhauer being the most obvious example. I still do not want to overrate Indian influence is Western Philosophy, it's an alternative way of thinking that has interracted a lot with the West throughout the years.
Studying Sanskrit (which opens the gates for learning a lot of northern Indic languages that would look decent, though admittedly not as shiny as say an East Asian for now, in your CV) is a great experience that lets you in on a lot of great philosophy and poetry and you might find something in it that you were not expecting

[Anonymous No.14988190]

>>14988176
Lol your professor is a bugman

Indian philosophy can explain the highest truths in very simple terms, western philosophy never really gets to the truth, it's only sort of implied but you can see these guys didnt really know.

[Anonymous No.14988193]

Try reading the following article before making any conclusions on Indian philosophy as a whole, or assuming Indian philosophy is just the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-india/

[Anonymous No.14988199]

>>14988176
There's no such thing as non-western philosophy.

[Anonymous No.14988200]

No it isn't taken seriously.

[Anonymous No.14988202]

The Mahabharata was a pretty cool story to read although I haven't really seen much analysis on the characters or the overall messages/themes

[Anonymous No.14988216]

>>14988190
>>14988188


So the Indian philosophy might describe the same theme the Western philosophy are has described in a different manner?
I’m currently reading Aristotle and Buddha and finding out how similar their conclusion to the best way of living is: seek the middle path.

[Anonymous No.14988217]

>>14988202
Reading the Mahabharata as philosophy would be like reading Homer's epics as representatives of Greek philosophy.
Not exactly invalid, but possibly not the most accurate reference point

[Anonymous No.14988223]

>>14988202
Samefag here, I guess one cool thing was how even in such an old story in a different country, men's concept of honor is still universal. For example in the battles, there's a strict rule for peer to peer combat only -> chariots vs chariots, god's vs god's, peasants vs peasants, in order to keep the war fair

[Anonymous No.14988225]

>>14988199
>>14988200

I heard that apparently the philosophy outside of Western world and Islamic world was something the orientalists in the west arbitrarily devised and ordered.

[Anonymous No.14988228]

>>14988176
in the sense that early greek philosophy is worth studying so is hindu philosophy, they had a subtle influence on greek philosophy,

[Anonymous No.14988229]

>>14988216
Buddhism is closer to Stoicism or Pyrrhonic Skepticism than it is to Aristotelianism in terms of its beliefs
Like Ancient Greece, Ancient India had lots of different philosophical schools and minor religions

[Anonymous No.14988238]

>>14988225
well, philosophy in its literal sense, as the love of wisdom is not purely western, but philosophy in the academic sense is, atleast in origin.

[Anonymous No.14988539]

>>14988216
Western philosophy almost gets there but gets bogged down in logical analysis.

[Anonymous No.14988620]

>>14988176
Your professor sounds really racist, you should report him to administration

[Anonymous No.14988626]

>>14988620
No.

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>>14988176
>unscientific
>looks up to science for approval
anyway just suck up to him maybe he'll get you a job

[Anonymous No.14990578]

>>14988176
>Can I find something in their philosophy that is not already written in Western philosophy?
Can you find something in western philosophy not already written about in one of the many schools and subschools of Indian philosophy desu?

[Anonymous No.14990597]

>>14988202
The original scripts are really long. My parents had thirty two books each of 600ish pages, translated from sanskrit. There are shitload of stories and philosophy, some of the stories cannot be read anywhere except original scripts.

[Anonymous No.14990606]

>>14990578
Yes, all of it.