Philosophical Traditions — Philosophy Registry

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Indian & Buddhist

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Buddhist Philosophy A tradition of argument that began with the Buddha's diagnosis of suffering and grew into one of the most analytically demanding systems ever built … Indian Philosophy The longest continuously debated philosophical tradition on earth: roughly 2,500 years of argument about knowledge, self, and liberation, carried… Tibetan Philosophy Philosophy as a monastic discipline: from the eighth century on, Tibetan scholars translated the Indian Buddhist canon and then spent a millennium…

East Asian

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Chinese Philosophy A tradition organized around a question the Greeks never asked so directly: how to order a life and a state. Japanese Philosophy A tradition of intense import and equally intense originality: Buddhist and Confucian frameworks arrive from China and Korea, are naturalized over a… Korean Philosophy Korean philosophy is best known for taking imported frameworks — Buddhism, then Neo-Confucianism — and arguing them further than their originators…

Islamic & Persian

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Islamic Philosophy The philosophical culture of the Islamic world: a millennium of argument in Arabic, Persian and Hebrew, beginning with the Baghdad translation of… Persian Philosophy Philosophy in the Iranian world runs from Zoroastrian cosmology through the golden age of Arabic-script falsafa and into a distinctive Persian…

African & Latin American

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African Philosophy Philosophy from a whole continent and its diaspora — written, oral, and argued. Latin American Philosophy A tradition that begins in conquest: the sixteenth-century argument over whether Indigenous peoples were fully human, fought out between Bartolomé de…

Indigenous & Global

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Global Philosophy The project of doing philosophy as a conversation among all the world's traditions rather than as the property of one. Indigenous Philosophy The philosophical traditions of the world's first peoples — Nahua, Maya, Quechua and Aymara, Navajo and Hopi, Inuit, Māori, Aboriginal Australian…