What do you see as the differences between Western and Eastern philosophies?

Eastern philosophy teaches you how to think and experience life according to your own path (consider Buddhism, the Zen experience, Hinduism as expressed in the Gita and Upanishads).

Western philosophy teaches you what to think and how best to understand your place in a world of others (See pretty much everyone from Plato to Heidegger to Sartre).

I'm not putting down the west here. But that's what I've seen as the fundamental difference between the two.

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Western philosophy, by which I assume you mean western religion, and eastern philosophy, by which I take it you mean Hindu philosophy/religion, are both the same in that they are renunciate (require self-sacrifice) and authoritarian, though the eastern version is much less bland, and much more colorful and complex than its western counterparts.

Western Philosophy : Eat, Drink and be Merry! (Khao, Peo, Mouz Karo)

Eastern Philosophy: Sacrifice and enjoy (Tena Tyaktena Bhunjiyha)

Western philosophy seems to seek answers from outside themselves - seeking God in a book or in a church.

Eastern philosophy seems to me to be searching for answers (or God) from within.

In the west you inherently broken and need salvation from forgiveness of others.

In the east it seems to be acceptance and forgiveness of self.

But I am probably wrong, I often am.

Only the ignorance, but they interchangeable. East met west thousands of years ago.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/confuciu.htm

http://www.iep.utm.edu/m/mozi.htm

the west is faith based and brainwashing, in the east it is more human nature studies, which is what it should be

West:.= I think I know..

East = I know..