Eastern literature and philosophy vs. Western literature and philosophy
if you don't answer Confucius will burn your city with his army and Plato will fuck you raw while calling you a poet, inferior to the intellectual man like him.
Confucius had no army, anon
>>9662428
Everyday I realize what a failure I have become.
>>9662419
>do what I want
>or I will kill you
wow that's sound philosophic
>>9662439
It is a kind of philosophy. A fundamental one in China, actually. It had its day but it wasn't very effective.
>>9662439
Political science in a nutshell.
>>9662419
Western philosophy is a perpetual rebellion against embodied man in favor of the creation of "man" and is only moving in the direction of eliminating the former after which we will realize the latter is superfluous. The East glimpsed the circle and realized the ouroboros for what it is. Most "Eastern" literature that is spoken of in this board (Mishima, Dazai, Murakami) is not representative of the Eastern tradition but is a reflection of this self-destruction.
>>9662439
>>9662445
Emperor's Clothes vs. Calling Deer a Horse basically. Truth is subordinate to life.