On Philosophical Synthesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9215158 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Dewey (0000-0002-6290-1635), Wilmon H Sheldon, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, S Radhakrishnan (0009-0006-4648-8672), George Santayana |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 1951-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy East and West (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8221 • E-ISSN: 1529-1898 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1397169 |
| OpenAlex | W2014837701, W1977453077 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
function your journal can perform in bringing about the ultimate objective of a substantial synthesis of and is to help break down the notion that there is such a thing as a and East that have to be synthesized. There are great and fundamental differences in the just as there are in the West. The matrix of China, Indonesia, Japan, India, and Asiatic Russia is not a single affair. Nor is the matrix of the West. The differences between Latin and French and Germanic cultures on the continent of Europe, and the differences between these and the culture of England on the one hand and the culture of the United States on the other (not to mention Canadian and Latin American differences), are extremely important for an understanding of the West. Some of the elements in Western cultures and Eastern cultures are so closely allied that the problem of synthesizing them does not exist when they are taken in isolation. But the point is that none of these elements-in the or the West-is in isolation. They are all interwoven in a vast variety of ways in the historicocultural process. The basic prerequisite for any fruitful development of inter-cultural relations-of which philosophy is simply one constituent partis an understanding and appreciation of the complexities, differences, and ramifying interrelationships both within any given country and among the countries, and West, whether taken separately or together. What I have just said might at other times and under other circumstances be considered so obvious as to be platitudinous. But at the present time and in the present circumstances, I venture to think that it is far from being such. Under the pressure of political blocs that are now being formed and West it is all too easy to think that there are blocks of corresponding orientation. To adapt a phrase of William James, there are no cultural block universes and the hope of free men everywhere is to prevent any such cultural block universes from ever arising and fixing themselves upon all mankind or any portion of mankind. To the extent that your journal can keep the idea open and working that there are specific philosophical relationships to be explored in the West and in the and between the West and you will, I think, be contributing most fruitfully and dynamically to the enlightenment and betterment of the human estate
Epistemology · Existentialism · Humanism · Materialism · Metaphysics · Mysticism · Philosophical methodology · Spiritualism · Theology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |