. West and East: difference in mentality and philosophy.

Lyurya N.A.

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The article devotes to analysis of the reasons of deep differences between two cultures: West and East. The author points out that the main reason of this fact is in accepting rather different board evidences by people as a root of their life. Western man accepts a possibility of his ratio, intellect as a such base, but Eastern man trust only to super consciousness essens as a base of hole Uni¬verse and his life, which can be achieved (precipitated) by meant of conjunction (in meditation) of individual «I» and Cosmic consciousness. Thus there is a difference in the attitude to life and death, manner of philosophy work, sys¬tems of proving, an in all culture in whole.

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Issue: 3, 2000

Series of issue: Humanities (Special Issue)

Rubric: Discussion: Scientific and Unscientific Rationality

Pages: 84 — 85

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