
Thinking Across the World | Julian Baggini
Philosophy For Our Times
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Classical Islamic Thought
In order to understand culture, understanding the philosophical tradition helps. The idea of there being a separation is itself something which is perhaps distinctive to us. When i went to china, i passed er in chufu, is the city where fucius came from. And like many places in china, you know, it was what was, until quite recently, a fairly small city. Is like, youknow, being like, a whole new one east chufe is being built. Have you ever seen a housing development which quotes the philosopher on the side of it in the u. K, i wonder, right? So this, this tells you a few things. First of all
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