P. Krzemiński: About disowning your own culture

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Some time ago, I was walking through the park, and I noticed that a middle-aged woman and her daughter were practicing yoga meditation on the grass. possibly I would have forgotten this insignificant reflection at all, if it hadn't been for any co-incidence. On my way back from the walk, I looked at the close marketplace and weighed the beautiful edition of the “Mediation” of the Dalai Lama. So as you can see, people practicing east doctrine from somewhere derive their information, in fact the modern book marketplace floods bookstores (also right-wing) positions with Asian philosophical systems.

Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Augustine, Thomas of Aquin, are already passe, erstwhile besides hard, secondly they require the European to form virtues for the price of many sacrifices, yet they have consisted of 1 of the most enduring systems concerning the nature of the beings always created, and as we know it limits the intellect due to the fact that it already gives answers. But that's where the problem lies. If we adopt the basic assumptions of east philosophies, which turn upside down the full order of definitions of beings which have been developed by classical philosophy, assuming that there are permanent elements in the nature of being, then the full building of human cognition about man simply falls into a abyss. It will be essential to throw distant the conventional vocabulary, which treats fact as a compatibility of the head with reality, to reject morality in general, to fight all forms. Why? due to the fact that that's precisely what Buddy wanted. In the philosophies of the east everything is variable, there is no specified thing as the nature of being, the planet is based on changing elements, although there are laws that guide the world, but the intent of the doctrine of the entrance is alternatively to break these laws, to prosecute complete abstraction from the world, to prosecute nothingness, to form your body by deceiving yourself.

Europeans are tempted very efficiently, if they reject certain pillars of classical Greek and Christian thought, they will free themselves from the chains of thought constructs and enter the way of knowing themselves. The problem is that no philosopher has so well discovered the laws of the ruling planet as Aristotle, and the fact that he did so many centuries ago does not make his observations cease to be valid. east doctrine cannot truly be a coherent system, due to the fact that they completely reject the nature of being, they could not even come to a reasonable way to the concept of the Absolute. Aristotle discovered in the 4th century before our Common Era that there must be a "unmoved mover" and considered it a logical consequence of observing the laws of nature. By reason man should realize the fundamental truths which besides transcend his senses. Yet, in fact, only European doctrine has developed specified a treasury of cognition that past has stored. I deliberately omit Arabic doctrine here due to the fact that it rejected the classical concept of fact and accepted that truths could contradict themselves, that is, there might be another truths in religion and others in philosophy. Christian philosophy, however, has always claimed that the truths revealed by God are not and cannot be contrary to natural law, go beyond that law, but do not deny it. The Arabs are completely different.

If Europeans do not adopt the doctrine of their ancestors, not yet contaminated with the cynical rationalism of Wolter, Kant's subjectivism, Kierkegaard's existential absurdism, and worse, adopt as their philosophers from Asia, they simply will stay without intellectual heritage, will be conquered culturally through the East and will end their history. The more liberal democracy, human rights and syncretism, the faster the death of the cultural construct called Europe.

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