Tag Archives: philosophy

Peimin Ni wrote an interesting comparison between Western and Eastern philosophy for the NY Times.  You can read it here.  I thought maybe some of you smart people might find it interesting, especially some of you smart people who were raised biculturally.

I think my own upbringing has actually been more Western than Eastern due to the presence of fundamentalist Christianity–which I’ve since discontinued in my adult and in my children’s tradition.  I also think that this blog probably follows a very Western tradition of what Derrida calls “logocentrism” in that many of us are always trying to answer questions of “why” or “how.”  Why, for example, is there a gender disparity?