04-15-2009, 12:47 PM
Quote:So we are breaking things down to Western Philosophy has a key (the key?) tenant of Individual Rights versus everything else as no one has seemed to want to tackle any definition of "Eastern" including by geography.
Well, I don't think I would come up with either of Pete's definitions, but then, I think "the West" is a bit of a silly concept anyway. "The East" is even worse, and between the two, there are gigantic chunks of the world left poorly defined. What is Latin America? What is Africa?
-Jester