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In the West, the term Eastern (Oriental) philosophy
refers very broadly to the various philosophies of “the
East”, namely Asia, including China, India, Japan, Persia and other areas.
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One must take into account that this term
ignores that these countries do not belong to a
single culture.
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Ancient eastern philosophy developed mainly in India and
China. The Indian or Hindu schools of philosophy can
be considered the oldest schools of philosophy.
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Ancient Indian civilization has some special features.
These
are:
* Rigid (жесткий) caste social structure.
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* Intellectual and religious passivity of people.
* The
priority of the irrational over the rational.
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Civilization of ancient India was formed in the
synthesis of local cultures and alien people from the
North – Aryans
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The development of ancient Indian philosophy consists of
two periods: the Vedic and Classical.
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Rig-Veda (Sanskrit ऋग्वेद, «Veda hymns») is a collection
of religious hymns, the first known monument of Indian
literature.
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The word «veda» means «knowledge» and comes from
the root «vid-», (Sanskrit «know»), that reconstructed from Proto-Indo-European
root «weid», meaning «to see» or «to know». «Weid-» is source of English word «wit», as well as the Latin «vision».
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Rig-Veda contains an extreme pluralism: the gods, people,
animals, plants, elements, seasons, countries, qualities of body, spiritual
abilities, etc. are animate (одушевленные) substances, which are connected with each other and can transform into one another.
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At the heart of cosmos there is an
eternal substance – Brahman. It is identical to the
eternal inner core (ядро) of the individual Atman.
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The world and its phenomena are considered as
the improvement of the primary entity (Purusha). Purusha is
also understood to be the first person, which consists of castes.
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Head corresponds to the caste of Brahmins (priests).
Hands – to the caste of the Kshatriyas (the
military or ruling class).
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Feet – Vaisya caste (merchants, artisans).
Footsteps –Sudras
caste (servants).
There were also untouchables, that is, most
lower of the castes.
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Universal law, which operates in the past, present
and future called karma.
Samsara is a cycle of
repeated rebirth.
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If a person adheres to a strict asceticism,
his samsara ceases (прекращается), and he reaches a state
of nirvana, that means fading. Ce’ssation (прекращение) of rebirth is called moksha.
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According to a traditional principle of classification, the
schools or systems of Indian philosophy are divided into
two broad classes, namely, orthodox (astika) & heterodox (nastika).
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These are regarded as orthodox, not because they
believe in god, but because they accept the authority
of the Vedas.
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To the first group belong the six chief
philosophical systems (popularly known as sad-darsana):
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Mimamsa (Prabhakara), the tradition of Vedic exegesis (толкование)
of sacrifice (жертвоприношения)
Vedanta (Badarayana), teaching about the origin of
the world from Brahman
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Samkhya (Kapila), the school of enumeration or “reasonable
deliberation” (разумное взвешивание, обдумывание): atheistic pluralism – the first
substance is not connected with the spirit
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Yoga (Patanjali), practice of contemplation, theoretical basis is
the Samkhya, but it acknowledged (признавать) a personal God.
Nyaya
(Akshapada Gotama), the school of logic
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Vaisesika (Kanada), the atomistic school, looking for identify
the differences among all that is opposed in the
outer and inner worlds. It saw the emancipation of a human soul in the separation of soul from all material.
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During next classical period, there appears an interest
in ethical issues. Agnostics, materialists and fatalists oppose the
Brahmins and the reformists.
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Buddhism (Pali बुद्ध धम्म, Buddha Dhamma, “Teaching of
Awakening (Пробужденный)”) is a religious-philosophical doctrine (dharma) of spiritual
awakening (bodhi), which arose about in the VI century B.C. and based on the ideas of Buddha Shakyamuni
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At the core of Buddhism is the doctrine
of the Four high-minded (благородный) Truths:
- suffering,
-
the origin and causes of suffering,
- a true cessation of suffering,
- the true ways to stop suffering.
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In Buddhism it’s proposed median (срединный), or the
Eightfold Path (Восьмеричный Путь) of achieving Nirvana. This path
is directly related to the cultivation of three varieties of virtues: morality, concentration and wisdom.
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Eightfold Path
Righteous faith.
The true determination (решимость).
Righteous
speech.
Righteous deeds (дела).
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5. Saintliness (Праведная жизнь).
6. Righteous thoughts.
7.
Righteous intentions (помыслы).
8. True contemplation.
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Jainism preaches non-violence to all living beings in
this world. Philosophy and practice of Jainism is based
primarily on the cultivation of soul to attain om’niscience (всеведение), om’nipotence (всесилие) and eternal bliss (блаженство).
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Lokayata (also Charvaq, Skt. चार्वाक) is a materialist
doctrine of ancient India.
Lokayata is a belief in the
real world (loka) and disbelief in the existence of the underworld.
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The main features of ancient Chinese philosophy are:
Practical orientation of philosophical constructions.
Absence of strict
categorical framework.
The domination of the ethical issues.
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Considering all things as a unity of opposites
(Yang – Yin), Chinese thinkers have explained the endless
process of moving through their dialectical interaction.
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Yin and yang is a Chinese symbol of
balance and harmony, and the opposite forces of nature.
The
symbol has two colours, White and Black which symbolize nature's balance of forces such as Good and Evil, Up and Down, Light and Dark, Male and Female, Life and Death, etc.
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Basically, this symbol represents the Positive and Negative
forces in the Universe. This symbol has been used
in Asia for a long time, and has become popular in the rest of the world, too.
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In Chinese mythology, it is allocated the highest
principle, which rules the world, the existence of things.
This principle is sometimes understood as the highest personified ruler (Shang-di), but more often as the word “the heaven” (Tian).
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During this period, freely and creatively there were
six major philosophical schools.
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1) School of Confucians;
2) School of yin and
yang;
3) School of moism (Mo-jia);
4) School of names (Ming-jia);
5)
School of lawyers, legists (Fa jia);
6) School of Taoism (Tao Jia).
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Confucianism is the philosophy based on the teachings
of Confucius, who was an important Chinese philosopher. Confucianism
has a complex system of moral, social, political, and religious thought, and has had a large influence on the history of Chinese civilization.
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Confucianism focuses on the ethical rules, social norms
and regulation control.
Confucius (551-479 BC), his name is
Latinized version of the name Kung Fu Tzu (teacher Kun). He is one of the first Chinese thinkers, philosophers.
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Confucianism was made to stop the fall of
Chinese society. After the Zhou Dynasty fell, people cared
only for themselves and did not have any respect for others. Confucianism became a social order for China, teaching that social relationships are the most important.
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People slowly started to believe in it, because
they wanted to have peace, but they had to
care for themselves, too. As a result, Confucianism brought the people love, harmony, and respect for one another.
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The teachings of Confucius focus largely on the
respect of one’s parents, elders, and ancestors.
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Also, he taught that humans 'can never stop
learning'; meaning that knowledge is infinite, therefore we will
always learn, never stopping. For example, he once asked a seven-year-old child to be his teacher, because the child knew something that he did not.
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Confucianism can be considered as the oldest school
of philosophy in China.
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Ethics of Confucius explaned human in connection with
his social functions, and education is to bring people
to the execution (исполнение) of these functions.
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The social order (Li) Confucius had established through
the ideal of universality, respect to nature and, especially,
relations between people.
This realization of functions and order based on the order leads to the manifestation of humanity (Ren).
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Another important feature of the social order is
strong obedience (повиновение) to elders, respect to them.
State
is a big family, and family is a small state.
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Ren (仁) – humanity, love for people (tree)
I
(义) – the truth, justice (metal)
Li (礼) – custom,
ceremony, ritual (fire)
Zhi (智) – common sense, wisdom (water)
Xin (信) – sincerity (искренность), good intentions (ground)
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Moists school was named after the founder Moe
Dee (479-391 BC). The main attention was primarily paid
to the problems of social ethics, which is connected through a strict organization with the despotic power of the head.
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The whole meaning was to the ideas of
universal love (Jiang ai) and mutual benefit for people.
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School of Names examined the relations of things
and expression of that relationship, and then the appropriation
of judgments and notions.
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Legism (Bu Hei Shen, Han Feng-tzu) is formed
almost as a teaching that focused primarily on issues
of legislation in the era of “warring states” (5-4 centuries BC).
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It is political philosophy which say that people
are bad by nature and need to be controlled
by the government.
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One of the most important contributors to Legalism
was Han Fei Zi. He said that a ruler must
use following tools to govern a state:
1. Fa (law or principle) The law must be known by everyone. Everybody under the ruler is equal before the law. If you do what law wants you will be rewarded. If you break the law or try to break it, you will be punished.
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2. Shu (method, tactic or art): These are methods the
ruler has to use so that nobody is able
to abolish the system.
3. Shi (legitimacy, power or charisma): The position of the ruler is important, not the ruler himself.
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One of the major directions in China, along
with Confucianism, was Taoism. Taoism studied that nature, space
and people find themselves in movement. Taoism began to learn universe through direct penetration into the conceptual nature of its existence.
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The world is in constant motion and change,
evolving, living and acting on impulse (спонтанно), without any
reason. In ontological doctrine Tao is a central concept. The purpose of thinking, in Taoism, is “merger” (слияние) between man and nature, because of he is its part.