7 Quotes About Western Philosophy

There is a sense of something happening in the air called ‘modernity’. It is a world of people and things and even ideas that we did not know were possible until we experienced it. - The Western tradition has been described as the most successful of the world's philosophical traditions. Much of Western philosophy is built on the foundation of Greek philosophy, which developed into the Hellenistic period, Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romanticism or Modernism. Here are some of the best western-philosophy quotes to help you get inspired.

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You haven’t realized it yet but your life is precious. I always say that people should not do something that has no purpose. Is there a purpose behind your actions? Of course there is a purpose behind your decision to step into this bamboo forest. That is why your life is not meaningless. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5) Melissa Rose Lawrence
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Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive. Frederick Turner
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(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea. Mahatma Gandhi
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Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here. Raquel Cepeda
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Pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stable scientific findings--the embodied mind, the cognitive unconscious, and metaphorical thought. Just as the ideas of cells and DNA in biology are stable and not likely to be found to be mistakes, so we believe that there is more than enough converging evidence to establish at least these three results. Ironically, these scientific results challenge the classical philosophical view of scientific realism, a disembodied objective scientific realism that can be characterized by the following three claims:1. There is a world independent of our understanding of it.2. We can have stable knowledge of it.3. Our very concepts and forms of reason are characterized not by our bodies and brains, but by the external world in itself. It follows that scientific truths are not merely truths as we understand them, but absolute truths. Obiviously, we accept (1) and (2) and we believe that (2) applies to the three findings of cognitive science we are discussing on the basis of converging evidence. But those findings themselves contradict (3). George Lakoff
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Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems. Steven Magee