Power and Philosophy: East vs West |Julian Baggini, Jamie Whyte, Vivienne Shue
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Greatest Influence of the West in China
The greatest influence of the west was back in the period that you were in, i think. And china in the mide from the mid nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century when the communist party came to power. So what we that was the period when the west was really influential. It got china a very multi vocal kind of philosophical reference base from which to think about its own experience. And it also got it am a nation unified under a western pattern of thought. Is classis classical analysis. Class analysis, not classical class analysis. Now, after then, there followed 30 years of relative isolation from the west, western influences, and thena deliberate, staged process of
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